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What will Ohio be voting on in 2008 and who decides?

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What will Ohio be voting on in 2008,
and who decides?
The procedure, protocol, and timeline of this decision making by Ohio's Elected Officials on Project EVEREST voting machine testing has been requested by OEJC.

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign - Election Education Program

Paddy Shaffer, Director, OEJC – On behalf of the OEJC Teachers, December 8, 2007

We write today as part of the Ohio Election Justice Campaigns Election Education Program to take a close look at another unfolding election issue in Ohio. With the year 2008, a presidential election year only 22 days away, big decisions are unfolding. The public as yet is in the dark as to issues of our voting machines that are being done on our dime, by our representatives, and for which we may all have to live with the results.

I have included below a written request to the Ohio Secretary Of State for the written documents that will inform the public and the OEJC of the parties, process, and timeline involved with the decision on the Project Everest testing of electronic voting systems. It is included below so this is a full educational document, with some background history so as to be as informative as possible. Thanks to Mark Crispin Miller for requesting we provide an explanation to accompany our record requests that we openly share. Please use this information to teach others. As of this date, we have no idea of how these decisions from the testing will be made, nor who exactly will make them.

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign is pleased to say that since contact was made to Mr. Brian Green, Election Council at the office of the Ohio Secretary of State, via phone on 12-5-07 and the follow up call and letter to the SOS office. We requested information on the timeline, policies and procedures for the decisions made on our voting machines, and we are now seeing a responses to these issues coming via the Dispatch and the Plain Dealer

at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/12/09/z-apoh_cuyahogaelections_120.ART_ART_12-09-07_B4_8B8NJTK.html?sid=101

And at http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1197107119143840.xml&coll=2

Background: The Project Everest Testing is the testing of the electronic voting systems in Ohio. When the testing was announced, Jennifer Brunner said she would not be making the final decision on what to do with the voting systems.

Rather, she said she was sending the report and recommendations to the governor (Strickland – D) and the legislative leadership for them to decide. In Ohio, the legislative leadership is still Republican dominated, and they are not inclined to fully acknowledge the problems with Ohio’s elections.

The Project Everest report was to be completed on Friday, December 7. It is to be made public and distributed to the governor and legislative leadership on Friday, December 14, 2007.

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