Slog - Comments on Democracy Inaction http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction This isn't very comforting. 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.”... Copyright 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:42:45 -0800 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:31:05 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe Well, now we all know where to look. Let's go guys.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109147 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109147 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:48:01 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle All you need is two people, one of the appropriate gender to talk to the evoting poll worker, and the other to use a common key that costs 25 cents.

Once the key's switched, you change the vote.

Anyone can do it in less than a minute.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109176 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109176 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:04:33 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo This shit frightens me more than Zogby polls.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109224 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109224 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:44:48 -0800 Comment by Original Monique Great, one more thing for conspiricy theorist to wet themselves over.

]]> Original Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109226 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109226 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:47:45 -0800 Comment by Nora The current secretary of state (a Democrat), Jennifer Brunner, has outlawed the practice. Which wasn't common practice all over Ohio to begin with (Franklin County, for instance, never allowed it).

]]> Nora http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109238 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109238 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:59:27 -0800 Comment by robo @4... every year more and more information comes out about how rudimentary and easily manipulated/hacked/disabled these machines are, and yet people like you continue to perpetuate the black helicopter/conspiracy stigma to anyone that raises an eyebrow. Color me confused.

]]> robo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109257 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109257 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:10:17 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Every year more and more information comes out about how rudimentary and easily manipulated people like you are. OMG look in the sky! WTF UIS THAL:T:!??!

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109335 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109335 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:57:11 -0800 Comment by robo Here you go, Mr. Poe-- there's plenty more kool-aid for you to drink. Bottoms up! (that's a drinking expression... we all know that your other bottom is perpetually up, wagging around in the air hoping that some withered senior somewhere can still pop a stiffy)

]]> robo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109355 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109355 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:08:55 -0800 Comment by Greg OHIO RESIDENTS! SUE! SUE! SUE!!!!!!!

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109823 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109823 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:14:21 -0800 Comment by Todd Boyle The other 49 states should be able to sue.

]]> Todd Boyle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109840 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/democracy_inaction#c1109840 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:31:05 -0800