Oh, Yeah, That Sounds Secure....

Aug 19, 2008 17:00

Mom, Can My Voting Machine Spend the Night?

Ohio is an election battleground state with perennial problems at the polls. So what have election officials in some precincts of the state been doing to keep their voting machines safe from tampering?
Taking the machines home with them and stashing them in their garages in the days before a big election.
If it sounds like something pulled straight out of an episode of Saturday Night Live, or Borat for that matter, it's not. The practice has become so widespread that it even has a nickname, "sleepovers."...

stupidity, government

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