Some of Today's State News Headlines
Today is Tuesday March 4, 2008
Ohio, especially Cleveland, under scrutiny for voting problems
By THOMAS J. SHEERAN
Associated Press Writer
CLEVELAND (AP) — With a surprisingly large role to play in the Democratic presidential race late in the primary season, Ohio faced the daunting job today of trying to run an election with new systems in many locations, particularly trouble-prone Cleveland.
With 250,000 Democrats, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County could be critical to the primary campaigns of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. Election officials weren’t predicting how long it might take to count the votes but it could last into Wednesday.
Ohio’s top elections official, Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat elected in 2006 with a promise to reform the system, said she would have preferred more low-profile time to make changes.
“We were really hoping that we would be under the radar, as it were, but as we find ourselves so often in Ohio, we’re smack dab in the middle,” the secretary of state said.
Peg Rosenfield, an election specialist with the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of Ohio, said conspiracy theorists will be out in force if the vote count drags into Wednesday. “Something will go wrong someplace,” she said.
(Refer to page 6 of today's Daily Chief-Union)
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