IMPORTANT: Did Warren County, Ohio, use electronic voting machines?

WilliamPitt

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Sat Nov-06-04 06:29 PM
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IMPORTANT: Did Warren County, Ohio, use electronic voting machines?

Read:

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/11/05/loc_warrenvote05.html

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WilliamPitt

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Sat Nov-06-04 06:35 PM
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1. .

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Lilli

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Sat Nov-06-04 06:44 PM
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4. punch cards

Edited on Sat Nov-06-04 06:45 PM by Lilli

...Voters in Hamilton, Butler and Warren counties will pick their candidates this November by punching out chads, just as they have for the past 30 years. (Voters in Clermont County use optical scanning machines to record votes.)...

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/08/14/loc_voting14.html

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tjdee

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Sat Nov-06-04 06:37 PM
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2. What is Triad punch card?

I don't think that's electronic...

I found a list of schools in Warren County and am cross referencing that with mypollingplace.com, which tells someone where AND WHAT KIND OF MACHINE they're voting at/on.

So far I've only done two.

I'm sure there's an easier way to do it though.

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WilliamPitt

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Sat Nov-06-04 06:42 PM
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3. I found this

http://verifiedvoting.org/verifier/map.php?topic_string=5estd&state=ohio&county=Warren

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tjdee

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Sat Nov-06-04 06:46 PM
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5. Also:

Edited on Sat Nov-06-04 06:47 PM by tjdee

"Decision on Voting Machines Delayed

Warren County commissioners are holding off on deciding which electronic voting machines they want, with the hope they could stay with the long-used punch-card system.

But state election officials say the county - and all others using the punch-card or lever voting systems - must eventually choose another system to comply with the Help America Vote Act. The federal law, signed by President Bush in October 2002, requires replacing those systems nationwide with methods that tell voters if they've made an error and give them a chance to fix it. "

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/08/13/loc_warcoelex13.html

So they stayed with the punch cards, according to your link (and on edit, Lilli's).

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sangh0

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Sat Nov-06-04 06:54 PM
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8. Lil info on Triad

Edited on Sat Nov-06-04 06:55 PM by sangh0

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/vendors/triad/

and

http://www.xegc.org/spotlight/triad.htm

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sangh0

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Sat Nov-06-04 06:56 PM
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9. Triad seems to have been involved in Fla 2000

Edited on Sat Nov-06-04 06:57 PM by sangh0

http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/uses-math/recount/datanew

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sangh0

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Sat Nov-06-04 07:02 PM
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10. The Rapp family seems to be pretty partisan to run elections

http://www.boogerhill.com/americanstogether/index.cfm

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Philostopher

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Sat Nov-06-04 07:09 PM
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11. They used the same punch card machines we did.

I live in Montgomery County, same old Triad punch machines, according to that site, that we used here. Buttefly ballot, dedicated stylus (leashed to the machine by a metallic wire), box underneath.

Warren County is overwhelmingly white (their minority population is much smaller than the average for Ohio, something under 10%, I think), slightly above the median income. There was no reason, in other words, to do what they did, if the article from the Enquirer is correct -- no reason to suspect anything went other than the way it was supposed to go.

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Awsi Dooger

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Sat Nov-06-04 06:47 PM
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6. My notes from 2000 indicate Warren is a heavily Republican county

That went 70% Bush, 28% Gore and 2% Nader. I have no idea regarding the voting method or what happened there this year.

That article is amazing. I thought we had party representatives in every county in swing states to make sure voting/counting irregularities couldn't happen.

I agree we should be focusing much more on Ohio, and less on Florida.

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sangh0

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Sat Nov-06-04 06:51 PM
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7. Rachel Hutzel is a puke

http://rachelhutzel.com/

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