• Zip Code: 44120 (Ohio)
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A great job by Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. Plenty of poll staff; lines moved well

20 Electoral Votes

Polling Hours: 6:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.

2008 Registered Voters: 8,303,837 as of 11/03 (Ohio Secretary of State - Elections & Ballot Issues)

Change from 2004: +4%

Election Day Registration: No

Post-Election Manual Audits: No

ID Requirements: Required of all voters. Photo or non-photo ID accepted.

Provisional Voting: Eligible for verification if cast in correct precinct

Voting System: DRE with VVPAT, optical scan and ballot-marking device

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Amish Voters Prefer Paper Ballots

State: Ohio

A spokesman for Ohio's Trumbull County Board of Elections said that most voters preferred using touch-screen voting machines to paper ballots, with one exception: Amish voters. Poll workers in Farmington Township, where a large percentage of Amish residents vote, reported that Amish voters chose to use paper ballots in fairly large quantities. (Youngstown Vindicator) Read More »

Ohio Officials Prepare for Provisional Ballots

State: Ohio

With voting sites now closed, Ohio Boards of Elections are preparing to deal with the thousands of provisional ballots believed to be cast by Ohioans. Provisional ballots, which are used when poll workers can't confirm a voters identity, will be counted only after state election officials confirm the voter is properly registered -- ten days after the election. It remains unclear how many voters cast provisional ballots, but officials believe the number is big. Read More »

'Double Bubble' May Be Problem in Ohio

State: Ohio

New voters in Ohio who are not used to paper ballots might be incorrectly filling in the bubble next to their candidate and filling in his or her name in the write-in section. Such ballots would be disqualified as an "over-vote." Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has asked that the local Boards of Election in each of Ohio's 88 counties go back through all the votes in every machine and find the "double-bubble ballots," try to determine voter intent and count the votes. (NPR) Read More »

Polls Running Smoothly in Cleveland

State: Ohio

Voting in Cleveland and its surrounding suburbs is going smoothly, elections officials say. As of 10 a.m., the board had received reports of 25 problems with scanners across the county. Five of the scanners were replaced. Of the more than 1,400 precincts in Cuyahoga County, only three were not open for voting at 6:30 a.m. The others opened up within minutes. And just 2 percent of nearly 8,600 poll workers did not report last night or this morning, compared with an absence rate of around 20 perce Read More »

Columbus Downplays Machine Problems

State: Ohio

Elections officials in Columbus, Ohio, are downplaying reports of widespread problems in Franklin County with touch-screen voting machines. County officials there say poll workers are having problems setting up certain machines; Election Protection, a national group of activists and election watchdog groups, had reported problems with machines in that county. (Columbus Dispatch, Election Protection) Read More »

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