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  • 01.24.08

    ACLU Applauds Statement by County Elections Officials

    Calls on Brunner to Reconsider Disastrous Proposal

    CLEVELAND–Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio renewed its call on Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and Cuyahoga County Board of Elections officials to heed the advice of the state’s top organization for election officials and reverse their decision to switch to voting technology that does not alert voters to errors on ballots. Read more…

    Voting Rights

  • 01.17.08

    ACLU Challenges Cuyahoga’s Unequal Voting Technology in Federal Court

    New Voting System Unlawful, Will Result in More Uncounted Ballots

    CLEVELAND- The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Ohio filed a lawsuit against state election officials in federal court today challenging the use of unequal, inaccurate and inadequate voting technology in Ohio’s most populous county. Today’s legal action seeks to block Cuyahoga County’s recent shift from using electronic voting machines to a system that Read more…

    Voting Rights

  • 01.03.08

    Hasty Voting Directive Ensures Election Confusion

    CLEVELAND–Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio condemned a directive from Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner that requires counties that currently use electronic voting machines to also provide paper ballots that do not provide notice of errors to the voter, also known as central count optical scan technology, for voters during the March Read more…

    Voting Rights

  • 12.27.07

    Change in Voting Technology Violates Ohio Law

    ACLU Urges Officials to Reconsider Move to Scrap Machines

    CLEVELAND–The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio urged election officials in Cuyahoga County today to reassess their decision to abandon current technology in favor of Central Count Optical Scan (CCOS) voting machines. In addition to previous concerns over violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Read more…

    Voting Rights

  • 12.17.07

    ACLU Warns Officials Hasty Election Changes May Disenfranchise More Voters

    CLEVELAND–Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio cautioned elections officials that making drastic changes to voting technologies could inadvertently disenfranchise more Ohio voters in the upcoming 2008 elections. In December 2007, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner issued a report outlining some of the security shortcomings of Ohio’s voting system. In addition, Brunner issued Read more…

    Voting Rights