WSJ: Voting Changes May Snarl Tallies in big OH County (Cuyahoga ie Cleveland)

Voting Changes May Snarl
Tallies in Big Ohio County
By JUNE KRONHOLZ
February 22, 2008; Page A4

Ohio's March 4 primary could be do-or-die for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions. Here is the catch: Cuyahoga County, where she hopes to cement a victory, has just changed the way it casts, collects and counts its votes, potentially clouding any win.


Most polls suggest Sen. Clinton is comfortably ahead in Ohio, where blue-collar voters are among her most loyal supporters and where a big win could propel her to a similar victory in Pennsylvania's April 22 primary.

But problems in Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland and is the state's most populous county, could tarnish any Clinton win -- or invite Illinois Sen. Barack Obama to challenge it.

"We can safely predict there will be some problems" with the county's new voting system, says Ohio State University law professor Daniel Tokaji. "How catastrophic it is depends on how close the election ends up being."

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the county tossed out its touch-screen voting machines and switched to paper ballots. The hasty switch worries many elections observers.