14 abandoned vote machines gathered at University of Toledo

Article published Saturday, November 19, 2005

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051119/NEWS09/511190406

By JOSHUA BOAK
BLADE STAFF WRITER

In the 10 days since the election ended, 14 touch-screen voting machines have sat unattended in the central hallway at the University of Toledo Scott Park Campus.

Only metal wire laced through the machines' handles and linked by a padlock protected them.

Each machine cost $2,700, according to the Ohio secretary of state's office.

It was the latest awkward moment for the Lucas County Board of Elections, which is scrambling to right the problems behind the laggard ballot count in the Nov. 8 election. The board is hosting a pancake breakfast today at the Lucas County Recreation Center to recap the election...



Election meal leaves sour taste
Commissioners flip over cost of controversial breakfast

Article published Friday, November 18, 2005

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051118/NEWS09/511180431

By JOSHUA BOAK
BLADE STAFF WRITER

The Lucas County Board of Elections is now stuck in a flap about flapjacks.

With this Saturday's pancake breakfast for volunteer poll workers costing an estimated $11,250, the county commissioners said yesterday that the agency has devoted more money to recapping the problematic Nov. 8 election than preparing for it.

"I think they need to be conscientious of the dollars spent ahead of time to carry out a successful plan, not after the fact," Commissioner Tina Skeldon Wozniak said.

Unofficial results from the election appeared more than 13 hours after the polls closed, slower than the other 87 counties in the state...

or they have their own ways of counting?

machines there as an INVITATION to another to take a few and delve into their "proprietary" guts? Even if it was just incompetence this was an opportunity lost.

"Vehrrrry interestingk..."

"Sock it to me?" and getting the living shit beat out of him. Thanks.