Another Roadblock In Bringing Free Elections To The United States

Maybe someday, free elections will return to America and we will have a democracy stronger than that of Pakistan....

But not today....

The American Civil Liberties Union urged the elections board in the state's most populous county on Thursday not to make a switch to a new voting system for the state's March presidential primary, warning that the move could violate state law.

The Cuyahoga County board is moving to abandon electronic touch-screen voting for a system in which voters fill out paper ballots that are sent to and tallied at a central location by an optical scan computer.

ACLU staff attorney Carrie Davis said a lawsuit was possible over the issue. The group raised its concerns in a letter delivered to the board.

The main dispute is whether a central optical scan of ballots at the board's headquarters downtown would result in votes not being counted on ballots that are incorrectly filled out. The ACLU believes the intent of election law is to ensure voters can be notified immediately of a voting error and be able to make a second-chance vote.

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