Saturday, May 20, 2006
Stewart v. Blackwell
An appeals court in Ohio has ruled that all districts had to have the same quality of election machinery.
The ACLU of Ohio filed the class action lawsuit in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore.
In the 2000 general election, 69 of Ohio’s 88 counties used punch-card ballots, resulting in thousands of uncounted votes. In its research, the ACLU was able to show that Ohio voters using punch-card ballots were, on average, four times as likely to have their votes go uncounted as voters using electronic voting equipment.
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The ACLU of Ohio filed the class action lawsuit in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore.
In the 2000 general election, 69 of Ohio’s 88 counties used punch-card ballots, resulting in thousands of uncounted votes. In its research, the ACLU was able to show that Ohio voters using punch-card ballots were, on average, four times as likely to have their votes go uncounted as voters using electronic voting equipment.
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