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Fewer paper votes count
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| Contributor | John |
| Last Edited | John Nov 09, 2008 06:58pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Nov 09, 2008 06:00pm |
| Description | Statistically, the chance of your vote not counting was 2 1/2 times higher in Franklin County if you used a paper ballot instead of voting electronically in this fall's election, a Dispatch analysis shows. Critics of paper ballots say that discrepancy represents one of the little-noticed consequences of Ohio's new early-voting system, which forces many voters to use paper ballots.
"That sounds like the pattern of what we found across the country," said David Kimball, a political-science professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis who co-wrote a national study comparing voting methods. |
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