CLEVELAND -- Representatives from several companies involved in the May 2 primary appeared before a three-member panel Thursday to answer questions about what went wrong.

NewsChannel5 reported that the panel is not calling it finger-pointing but it seemed that way during the hearing: The new and old ballot-printing companies are pointing the finger at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, and the board of elections is pointing at Diebold, the company that made the voting machines.

Dayton Legal Blank Inc. previously printed the ballots for Cuyahoga County before the company lost the bid to Marketing Communication Resource. Both companies said that board of elections workers procrastinate.

"It was a very contentious subject. We struggled with Cuyahoga County on meeting timelines," said Legal Blank President David Keller.

The major problems on May 2 were with the optical scan voting machines. Results for the county were delayed six days when roughly 18,000 absentee ballots had to be hand counted and some Election Day workers were insufficiently trained or absent, NewsChannel5 reported.

Representatives from both Dayton Legal Blank and MCR painted a picture before the review panel of elections officials constantly failing to meet deadlines, which pushed preparation time back and may have played a part in the Election Day debacle.

"The integrity of the election was never altered. The results may have been delayed … in another four to six hours we would have had it fixed anyways," said MCR President Frank Piunno.

County election officials were not part of the hearing but have criticized Diebold for inadequate technical support.

"In 47 of out 48 counties in Ohio in May, we experience extremely successful elections with great success," said Diebold's Jessica Hines.

Ultimately, the panel is trying to find out everything it can about preparation for May 2, how the elections were conducted, and how everything went with closing the polls and tabulating votes.

It's looking for causes and contributing factors.