Cuyahoga County

Like Déjà Vu, Sour Stew Starting to Brew over Voting in Ohio

Posted Fri, 12/28/2007 - 13:19 by John Michael Sp...
OhioNews Bureau ONB COLUMBUS: Just when you thought the confab and controversy over Ohio’s problem-plagued system of voting was over, a new stew is brewing pitting election-law experts and voting-rights advocates against Ohio’s new chief elections officer, who recently decided to scrap expensive, hackable touch-screen machines in favor of expensive, temperamental optical scanners in the hotspot of Ohio election failures just a few short months before the Buckeye State’s March primary.

Ohio Election Officials Say Reform Costly, Others Say Reforms Also Risky, Unwise

Posted Wed, 12/19/2007 - 12:28 by John Michael Sp...
OhioNews Bureau ONB COLUMBUS: Last Friday Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner presented the controversial findings of her $1.8 million dollar EVEREST study of Ohio’s election system showing vulnerabilities abound.

Brunner’s EVEREST Report Finds Vulnerabilities in Ohio Voting System

Posted Fri, 12/14/2007 - 09:52 by John Michael Sp...
OhioNews Bureau ONB COLUMBUS: With $100 million in federal Help America Vote Funds having been spent already to purchase thousands of electronic voting machines used in Ohio’s 88 counties, the $1.9 million more in federal funds just spent by Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to perform a comprehensive review of voting systems used in the state seems only to have further muddied the waters of what to do for the 2008 March primaries and the fall general elections, when a massive turnout is expected for the race for the White House.

Cuyahoga Commissioners Ask Ohio SOS for $20M to Replace Flawed Vote Machines

Posted Fri, 12/07/2007 - 14:14 by John Michael Sp...
ePluribus Media OhioNews Bureau ONB COLUMBUS: When earlier pioneers floated downstream on the Niagara River, they saw the billowing streams of rising mists from the monstrous falls that lay ahead of them. For the boatmen who failed to heed the message of the mists, their future was indeed bleak. For the smart ones who understood the peril below the mists, they had time to portage around the death-defying falls.

Ohio Wins Poll-Worker Training Funds, Voting Problems Persist in Cuyahoga County

Posted Thu, 11/29/2007 - 23:55 by John Michael Sp...

ePluribus Media Ohio News Bureau

ONB Columbus: It’s unfortunate that Ohio had to wait until the November general elections were over before winning a poll-worker training grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts (PCT). The grant initiative will fund an online training program for poll workers and state and local-election officials that will hopefully make them more competent and capable in their jobs on Election Day.