But they acknowledge having too few machines to cope with an additional 102,000 registered voters. "We clearly ended up disenfranchising people, and I don't want to minimize that."įranklin County election officials - evenly split between Republicans and Democrats - say they allocated machines based on past voting patterns and their best estimate of where more were needed.
Foley, who is director of the election law program at the Ohio State University law school and a former Ohio state solicitor. "There isn't enough to prove fraud, but there have been very significant problems in running elections in Ohio this year that demand reform," said Edward B. Some longtime voters discovered their registrations had been purged. In Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo, and on college campuses, election officials allocated far too few voting machines to busy precincts, with the result that voters stood on line as long as 10 hours - many leaving without voting.
In Youngstown, 25 electronic machines transferred an unknown number of votes for Sen. In Cleveland, poorly trained poll workers apparently gave faulty instructions to voters that led to the disqualification of thousands of provisional ballots and misdirected several hundred votes to third-party candidates.
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