Ohio county seeks 1st trial run for Diebold voting machines in July

[Algorem]

Lake County seeks trial run for Diebold voting machines

Friday, May 20, 2005

http://www.cleveland.com/lake/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/lake/1116581453227292.xml&coll=2

Maggi Martin
Plain Dealer Reporter

Painesville- The Lake County Elections Board wants Diebold Inc., one of the state-approved voting-machine vendors, to conduct Willowick's special council election in July to test the company's machines for the first time in Ohio.

Elections Director Jan Clair said the county also has joined in a lawsuit with Election Systems & Software, one of Diebold's competitors, against Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell to get more time to replace the county's current equipment.

Clair said that the county's Sequoia Voting System is not on the state's list of approved vendors but has performed well and that the county still owes $800,000 on the touch-screen machines bought in 1999. Those machines could be fitted to provide a paper trail, as required by law, but not by the May 24 deadline imposed by Blackwell.

Clair said Lake County wants to see how Diebold's machines perform before it decides which system to buy...

[Liberty Belle]

1. Ohioans should stage sit-ins and refuse to vote on these riggable machines

made by crooks! Demand paper ballots, hand-counted!

[asjr]

2. It should be illegal to use privately manufactured machines

unless the "code" is shown to the buyers. And the buyers are the citizens of this country. Ohio has chosen pig in a poke elections

[Liberty Belle]

3. So...bring piggy banks to the sit-ins to illustrate the pig-in-a-poke idea