Franklin County , the big county in Ohio , has move back to paper ballots after unprecedented levels of early ballot created data point data file too large to synchronise with the hard drives of electronic pollbooks , according to theColumbus Dispatch .
The pollbooks have been used for old age , according to the Dispatch , but the surge in absentee and early balloting this year ( arecord - shattering3.4 million ) meant that voting official were n’t able to download last - moment update before Nov. 3 .
Franklin County Board of Elections director Ed Leonard told the Dispatch that 350,982 of the county ’s 833,000 registered elector had tramp early votes and election functionary “ ca n’t guarantee all the information would be there for all the most late absentee activity . ” alternatively , poll worker will use paper records to ascertain identification . That slows down processing at the polls but is not anticipated to be a major job as it is how elections were scat in the past times , Leonard told the paper .
Voters arrive for early voting in Columbus in Franklin County, Ohio.Photo: Ty Wright (Getty Images)
The Ohio Secretary of State ’s officetweetedthat the issue affects only the stay - in process , not vote machine .
It ’s important to notice that this does NOT bear on voting auto in any way , and only modifies how voters are moderate in . 3/3
— Verify Ohio by Ohio Secretary of State ( @VerifyOhio)November 3 , 2020
The county ’s pollbook provider , KnowInk , was fingered by Los Angeles County officials as one of theroot causesof glacially slow communication channel during California ’s March 3 , 2020 master election . Issues flagged byL.A. County officialsincluded lengthy wait synchronizing the tablets , voters incorrectly told to ramble provisionary ballots , a bug that made it impossible to search for registered voters by their street and house numeral , and general glitchy behavior .
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