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This week on "The State of Ohio": The budget is on its way to a committee that will hammer out the differences before the end of the month deadline. But there are serious issues on both sides that could slow down the talks. A billion dollars is headed back to Ohio employers who paid into the states Bureau of Workers' Comp program. But a critic says the BWC has an outstanding bill that remains unpaid. And more on how Ohio's poorest people are surviving the rising costs of a basic existence.
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| Secretary of State says voting machine selection deadline is firm. |
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By Karen Kasler - January 26, 2005 |
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Secretary of State Ken Blackwell says he's not at all flexible on his deadline for county boards of elections to choose the machines voters will use in 2006. He says those boards must choose between machines from one of two vendors by February 9 - no later.
The incoming president of the Ohio Association of Elections Officials, who called that decision "somewhat dictatorial", says he's still hoping for some wiggle room. Keith Cunningham told Ohio Public Radio's Karen Kasler his county is ready, but not all are.
Blackwell praised poll workers and boards of elections members for their work in the presidential election at their annual conference in Columbus Wednesday/this week. But Blackwell says the February 9 deadline is the only way to ensure federal funding for machines that meet the state's voter verifiable paper audit trail requirement by 2006. |
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Ken Blackwell (:28) 
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Keith Cunningham (:26)
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