No More Shacking Up With Ohio Voting Machines
By Suki Kott on Wednesday 20 August 2008, 07:15 - Electronic Voting - Permalink
Apparently some folks in Ohio have been
hosting electronic voting machines at their slumber parties. Poll workers, in
that hotly contested state, frequently bring the machines home with them for
days leading up to elections. I'm not sure I understand why this would be
necessary -- and frankly, any arguments I've read about (it allows pollworkers
to avoid charges incurred by moving companies,) make no sense to me. Clearly
I'm not the only one who doesn't buy these arguments because Ohio's Secretary
of State has issued a directive stating that this practice will no longer be
allowed.
Via Why Tuesday.
(By the way, the AP news posting states that extra costs incurred by this change would be covered by federal funding, but I don't see anything that indicates so in the directive).