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Ohio says no to voting machine 'sleepovers'
woio.com ^ | August 19, 2008 | Associated Press

Posted on 08/19/2008 1:15:41 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - 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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: howtostealanelection; ohio2008; ohiovotefraud; votefraud

1 posted on 08/19/2008 1:15:41 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They just want to protectt hem from Eeeevil Republican hijinks. I wonder how Florida is handling such worries?


2 posted on 08/19/2008 1:19:19 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I can’t believe they even considered such a thing.


3 posted on 08/19/2008 1:19:30 PM PDT by Marie2 (Everything the left does has the effect and intent of destroying the traditional family.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Kinky people running our elections.


4 posted on 08/19/2008 1:20:38 PM PDT by listenhillary (Obama - The Wizard of Uhs)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Uhhhhh, might this not fall into the “self-evident truths” category?


5 posted on 08/19/2008 1:23:11 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Vigilantism will arise where the justice system is viewed as overly lenient and/or ineffective.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
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.

You gotta be pooping me. Take the machines home so they WON'T be tampered with? They really said that with a straight face? Wow, wouldn't want to play poker with them.

6 posted on 08/19/2008 1:24:00 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (College kid: "Do you have a minute for Obama?" NVA: "Not now or ever.")
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To: theDentist
I wonder how Florida is handling such worries?

Most if not all counties have chucked out the expensive machines in favor of the auditable, recountable mark-sense ballots. A handful of machines are kept for disabled voter access compliance. All pro'ly at the expense of the taxpayer including those who bought smart the first time around.

7 posted on 08/19/2008 1:26:06 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (College kid: "Do you have a minute for Obama?" NVA: "Not now or ever.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Doesn’t matter. They’re already programed to record only “R” votes.


8 posted on 08/19/2008 1:29:51 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This seems to be the equivalent of sending the chickens home with the fox so that the eggs will be fresh in the morning...


9 posted on 08/19/2008 1:32:09 PM PDT by philled ("I prefer messy democracy to the stability of tyrants." -- Howar Ziad, Iraqi Ambassador to Canada)
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To: Marie2

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

Sure it does. Sure it does.

How are THESE devices ANY DIFFERENT than the other polling equipment that they used to have to bring in?


10 posted on 08/19/2008 1:33:37 PM PDT by weegee (The higher taxes that Obama demands of Americans are 'Above my Pay Grade'.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
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.

Evidently they did it in the past, or they wouldn't be talking about it now.

Taking a voting machine home with you the night before an election... how could that go wrong?

11 posted on 08/19/2008 1:35:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Public policy should never become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. -- Ike Eisenhower)
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To: listenhillary

I wouldn’t want to use a machine someone slept with.


12 posted on 08/19/2008 1:38:50 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Vote For McCain But Trust In The LORD.)
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To: theDentist
I wonder how Florida is handling such worries?

In 2000, a West Palm Beach man was found by police with a punch card machine and blank ballots in the trunk of his car.

-PJ

13 posted on 08/19/2008 1:39:40 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Obama's "citizen of the world" is the 2008 version of Kerry's "global test.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Words. Fail. Me.


14 posted on 08/19/2008 1:45:21 PM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Are poll workers still allowed to take home the paper ballots on election night for safe keeping?

/s


15 posted on 08/19/2008 1:56:17 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: Berlin_Freeper

When your polling official sleeps with the ballot box, (s)he sleeps with the ballot of every voter in the precint...


16 posted on 08/19/2008 2:01:35 PM PDT by weegee (The higher taxes that Obama demands of Americans are 'Above my Pay Grade'.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Next time I go to Vegas, I'm going to ask the hotel to let me take one of their slot machines up to my room for a couple of days for safe keeping before I play it.


17 posted on 08/19/2008 2:22:33 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Fraud free elections...LOL.


18 posted on 08/19/2008 2:37:21 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Did they do this before the last presidential election, you know, that one that was so hotly contested?

Things that make you go "hmmm."

19 posted on 08/19/2008 3:07:00 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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