Ballot Printer Story in Dayton Daily News

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Area company plays big role in elections in Ohio
By Jaclyn Giovis

Dayton Daily News

CENTERVILLE | Ohio probably could not hold an election if not for Dayton Legal Blank, Inc.

This Centerville printing company will produce all of the election ballots for 85 of Ohio's 88 counties for the November election.

"We're one of those companies that touch people every day, but people don't even know we exist," President David Keeler said.

Tucked away in a modest, 1970s-style facility, Dayton Legal Blank is a hub for Ohio's election business.

Before Election Day in November, it will create about 22,000 different ballot types, including both provisional and absentee ballots.

Employees, meanwhile, have been working at least 60 hours per week to print, package and deliver millions of ballots across the state.

Soon, sweeping changes to the election process will become noticeable to every voter and will impact every state.

Companies such as Dayton Legal Blank, however, were turned upside down immediately following the 2000 presidential election, when voting problems in Florida resulted in a ballot recount and officials sought to overhaul the nation's election landscape.

"Until Florida, no one knew there was an election process," Keeler said. "Now we're under a magnifying glass."

The federal government mandated, among other things, that punchcard ballots be replaced nationwide. In Ohio, punchcards are being replaced with optical scan ballots and touch-screen voting machines that produce a voter-verifiable paper audit trail.

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Now how can they get by with calling it a voter-verifiable paper audit trail?????? Have heard this before, but the only paper I know of on a Diebold machine is a 300 foot roll that cannot be audited by the voter! I suppose they think that if I look through the screen to see a tiny tape roll with my vote cast, that I should feel my vote validated - Well, that doesn't validate my vote and I want my vote validated!!!