Smooth sailing helps repair county's election image. Cuyahoga County continued to shed its reputation as a home to troublesome elections with another smooth vote count Tuesday night.
Final, unofficial results were tallied by midnight -- a lightning-quick finish compared with elections in recent years, when votes were still being counted as dawn neared.
Cuyahoga elections, including last year's presidential race, have become more successful in large part because the Board of Elections has found a voting system it is comfortable with, Director Jane Platten said. The current system, in which paper ballots are scanned at the polls, replaced a problematic touch-screen system that was scrapped in late 2007 -- less than two years after it was introduced.
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Smooth sailing helps repair county's election image. Cuyahoga County continued to shed its reputation as a home to troublesome elections with another smooth vote count Tuesday night.
Final, unofficial results were tallied by midnight -- a lightning-quick finish compared with elections in recent years, when votes were still being counted as dawn neared.
Cuyahoga elections, including last year's presidential race, have become more successful in large part because the Board of Elections has found a voting system it is comfortable with, Director Jane Platten said. The current system, in which paper ballots are scanned at the polls, replaced a problematic touch-screen system that was scrapped in late 2007 -- less than two years after it was introduced.


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