Poweshiek Counts Ballots By Hand
Poweshiek County auditor Diana Dawley saved money for the small towns in her jurisdiction Tuesday by letting them count paper ballots by hand. The alternative would have been to pay for programming of touchscreen voting machines.
Before the voting Dawley told the Grinnell Herald-Register
We don’t anticipate high voter turnout because there’s not much competition in the smaller communites this time, and we felt it could be a cost savings to the cities to use paper ballots instead of having the voting machine cards programmed for the election.
It just seemed to make sense to simplify things . . . A lot of people would like to get back to paper ballots.
Cheaper, simpler, popular. What’s not to like?
[Thanks to B.B. for finding this story in the Grinnell paper, which is not on the web.]