Recounts Possible For 9 Races In Cuyahoga County Election (Ohio)

Source: AP

POSTED: 9:07 am EST November 18, 2007
UPDATED: 9:22 am EST November 18, 2007

CLEVELAND -- Election officials in Ohio's most populous county might have to recount as many as nine races from the Nov. 6 election, rekindling fears over the accuracy of electronic voting machines.

The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections says the official record of votes in an electronic touch-screen machine is a paper printout resembling the tapes in cash registers. Those records are fragile and are sometimes damaged and unreadable, making votes ineligible and recounts difficult.

The Board of Elections is scheduled to certify the Nov. 6 election results Wednesday. At least 3,200 provisional ballots and 5,500 absentee ballots must be added to about 195,000 votes already counted. State law mandates a recount if the margin of victory is one-half of 1 percent or less. Preliminary results show there are nine extremely close races.

The most high-profile potential recount is the Lyndhurst mayor's race, in which incumbent Joseph Cicero is just 16 votes ahead of challenger Tim Toma, based on unofficial results.



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.... get your s..t together. We need to have all the states with trustworthy, solid voting systems for next year - otherwise, we end up with what happened in the last two elections. Demand a statewide clean-up of whatever the hell is wrong, starting with your governor and legislators.

Democratic area those diebold pieces of junk were pushed upon us by the federal government and guess who's behind and in charge of that?

to turn this around, please keep working on this,

:-(

i guess since they've yet to be truly confronted on their evildoings they'll keep on doing 'em

when they should have instead been sent to real prison or waterboarded on Cleveland Public TV. This will not end until the people responsible are punished, severely and publicly.

You're right, imho. Until people get consequences, this will keep going.