It’s Election Day–Again
It’s Tuesday and that is election day. Both in Haiti and in Ohio. To this blogger, the Carlisle, Ohio voting is the more curious.
That’s because they already voted on this levy last November. But they made a mistake–-they held a paperless election.
Voters told the touch screen voting machines either YES or NO on a question of how to finance the fire and emergency service departments. At the end of the day, the box revealed the votes. But when the YES votes were added to the NO votes in one precinct, the total was greater than the number of voters who had participated in the election. Oooops.
Now a court has ordered a rerun of the election at city expense.
I wonder if the city will be getting in touch with Diebold, the makers of the voting machines that messed up the November election. And I wonder whether Iowa counties are prepared for this to happen to them. Ask your auditor about paperless voting.