Doesn't seem like it was that hard to come up w/ a viable solution.

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Allen elections board shows off system
By HEATHER RUTZ
419-993-2094
hrutz@limanews.com


LIMA — About 50 elections officials from 20 counties visited Allen County to view the voting machines Ohio’s secretary of state has mandated.
Allen County Board of Elections is the only one in the state using precinct-count optical scan machines. Elections Director Keith Cunningham hosted a district meeting of elections officials and provided a demonstration of how the office uses the equipment on Election Day.
The system provides a paper trail of the vote and counts ballots as they are inserted into ma-chines at polling locations. The precinct count means a quick night for elections officials, com-pared with counties that currently use punch card and other systems in which ballots are not counted until the end of the day.
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