Almost all counties in Ohio are still using punch card ballots, yes. I live in one that uses much older electronic machines, where you physically push buttons to select your choices and then register the vote -- which is encoded on two separate pieces of paper. I wasn't aware that Diebold machines had been cleared to be used in Ohio at all, after that debacle.

As for the exit polls, most folks, even more progressive, think it's a problem with the exit poll system then dark voting machine conspiracies. Considering how many problems exit polls had in 2000, I'd be inclined to invoke Occam's Razor and state that they're likely correct. I certainly hope they are.

-- ArchTeryx