Brunner's attempts to grab headlines will cost the taxpayers millions

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (D) has gone on a tirade calling Ohio's electronic voting machines unreliable. Citing sketchy reports, Brunner recently ordered that paper ballots and optical scanning machines be made available across the state. This obvious attempt to find a stage and a spotlight has already cost Ohio taxpayers millions. If left unchecked, it will undoubtedly cost millions more.

Brunner's selfish and shameless headline grabbing is finding ink in the press, but I doubt that this is the kind of story she was hoping for!

from the Cincinnati Enquirer

Brunner first opposed voting machine overhaul

COLUMBUS - The state's chief elections official was adamant in a letter to Congress last summer that a quick voting machine overhaul would be bad for voters. Six months later, she ordered exactly such an overhaul.

In the June 13 letter, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner lobbied against a federal effort to change how voters who use electronic touch-screen machines can read a paper record of their ballots.

Brunner wrote elections officials were just becoming comfortable with changes resulting from a 2002 federal mandate.

In December, Brunner ordered Ohio counties with touch-screen systems to switch to paper ballots because of security concerns raised in a study of the electronic touch-screen machines.

Brunner said Friday when she wrote the letter, the review of Ohio's touch-screen machines was not complete.