Ohio: No 'sleepovers' for voting machines

[LynneSin]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ohio_No_Sleepovers_For_Voting_Machines_0820.html
Ohio: No 'sleepovers' for voting machines

Ohio's elections chief says she won't allow poll workers to take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said Tuesday that the practice known as "sleepovers" is an unacceptable security risk.

Many local election officials have argued that the custom makes it easier to transport machines to polling sites.

Otherwise, they would have to hire moving companies to distribute the machines at a cost of thousands of dollars, something they don't have in their budgets.

Brunner says federal money will reimburse counties for the added cost.

Sleepovers are prevalent in Ohio counties that use touch-screen voting machines and are sometimes used in counties with machines that scan paper ballots.

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Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is such a breath of freshair after having Kenneth Blackwell, a man who was happy to repress people of his race from voting, served that office. Also from the article:

Earlier this month, Brunner sued Premier Election Solutions (formerly known as Diebold Election Systems), accusing the voting machine manufacturer of breach of warranty, fraud, and not fulfilling its contracts, after hundreds of votes in several Ohio counties were "dropped" during March's primary. Those votes were discovered after the fact and reinserted into vote tabulations.

In May Premier claimed that antivirus software and human error were responsible for the glitches, and recommended counties disable the anti-virus software on the tabulating machines. That would have counteracted the state's certification process.

Last December Brunner called for the state to scrap its $21 million electronic touch-screen machines over security concerns.

[Muttocracy]

1. taking them home?!?!?!

[LynneSin]

3. Yep, pollworkers were allowed to take home Diebold Electronic voting machines

Under Kenneth Black"s won't do"well.

[Muttocracy]

4. well, there's another reason to hang onto NY's giant heavy metal lever machines! nt

[sasquatch]

2. And I thought the worst thing that involved sleepovers happened at Michael Jackson's house

:scared:

[flamingdem]

6. sasquatch that is funny

did you check out the Bigfoot story?

[sasquatch]

11. Yes, I smelled Bullshit on it way before anyone else though

Bigfoot would not hang out in Georgia, its too damned hot.

[flamingdem]

5. Aha, so the Repubs even sleep with the voting machines, wow nt

[Me.]

7. I Don't Get It

If the machines have to be moved they have to be moved. Why would they cost less to move if there's a sleepover involved? What am I missing here?

[LynneSin]

9. well they could stay locked up in a secured area with limited access

or they could sleepover at some pollworker's home which may or may not be an issue depnding on the party affliation

[quantass]

8. Remind me again why Americans vote?

[dailykoff]

10. "Sleepovers," what a cute name for election fraud.

Is Ohio a state of insanity or what?

[sasquatch]

12. Was, right now 5 of the 6 statewide offices are held by Dems

So right now we're cleaning up a lot of really bad Repiglican policy.