Article published August 19, 2008
Ohio says no to voting machines going home overnight with workers
ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBUS, Ohio — 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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