CLEVELAND -- Voters in Cuyahoga County will be using paper ballots to cast their votes in the March primary instead of those new electronic voting machines, but there's a high price associated with that switch.

The electronic machine is cutting edge but it didn't cut it in Cuyahoga County, so now it's back to low tech. But who's paying for the high-tech mistake?

In the upcoming election, the Diebold TSX electronic voting machines will sit unopened in a Sheffield Warehouse: 5,000 machines, totaling $22 million.

The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections and the Ohio attorney general gave the high-tech machines a vote of no confidence. The move came after two years of miscues and mistakes, including missing votes and crashed computers.

Last November, even the executive director of elections worried a server crash might prevent a count at all.

"I did not feel confident standing in front of that server that we were going to be able to pull out the tabulated results," said Jane Platten.

This time, the county is spending $1.4 million to use paper ballots tabulated on older optical scanners the county is renting.

Poll workers who struggled with computerized equipment for a couple of years are now getting basic instruction on how to set up the old-fashioned way.

But what about the $22 million paid for the electronic machines?

While the board of elections has talked about a potential lawsuit, Diebold said there hasn't even been a formal request for a refund.

Diebold pointed out that the same electronic machines are being used in other states without major problems.