The Hamilton County Board of Elections spent two-and-a-half hours Tuesday morning delving into an investigation of last week’s election, which was plagued with problems caused by a new electronic poll book system. One thing the board learned was this – the company that sold that sold it the $1.4 million system, Tenex, was willing to take the blame for the technical snafus. And, from the testimony of 10 poll workers who had to deal with the new system, board members learned poll workers need more training – particularly on what to do when the electronic scanning of voters’ ID cards doesn’t work. The problems on Election Day with the e-polling system were severe enough to convince a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judge to order the polls stay open for an extra 90 minutes. Tuesday, the four members of the board voted unanimously to spend $50,000 to pay all of the workers an extra $25 for staying on the job. Ravi Kallem, the president of the software company Tenex, apologized to the
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