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Breaking News! 3/13/05!!
Plans are being made to reverse the legislation requiring the VVPAT (Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail) requirement to voting equipment purchased for elections in 2006 and beyond! See summary of this and other election-related legislation planned
Senate Bill SB77 will be debated in the Senate Committee "State and Local Government Affairs" discussing plans to approve paper-less DRE's. To find out the status of a bill and when the next hearing is scheduled, call 1-800-282-0253 (466-8842 in Columbus).
If this bill passes, Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell will reverse his requirement that counties purchase Optical Scan equipment. His representative said so in the Cuyahoga Board of Elections Board meeting on 3/7/05.
(See transcript from Cuyahoga County Board of Election Board Meeting of 3/7/05)
Cuyahoga County plans to purchase such paperless DRE's from Diebold (they decided this in January 2004) if SB77 passes. (See transcript)
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