Back on December 17, 2007 Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, shared her concern about the voting ballots in the state and issued a report about the "shortcomings" of the states voting system.
Stewart v. Blackwell -- a case that occured after the 2000 Presidential Election, involved problems with voting methods: " punch-card and optical scanning and/or touch screen systems arbitrarily deprive voters of the equal protection of the law and the right to due process" according to the ACLU. The ACLU of Ohio won this case
At a meeting for the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections' in December, the ACLU attorney suggested that specific technology could cause problems with lost ballots "due to overvoting and undervoting, particularly in communities with high numbers of people of color"
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