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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050113/NEWS01/501130364

A short excerpt:

"It is just the most efficient and practical way to proceed," Secretary of State Ken Blackwell said Wednesday, as he made the optical scanner the state's primary voting system.

Optical scan is the most widely used system nationwide, accounting for 32 percent of votes in the 2004 election. Just 11 of Ohio's 88 counties use optical scan now, including Clermont.

Blackwell said county boards of election must adopt the scan voting systems by the end of the year, regardless of whether local officials have picked other methods.

"We have a tight election-reform deployment schedule, too few allocated federal and state dollars and not one electronic voting device certified under Ohio's standards and rules,'' Blackwell said in a statement. "Precinct count technology just makes sense considering the flexibility it provides to financially constrained counties.''