It’s not news that Ohio has election problems. Cuyahoga Conty in particular has been plagued with election irregularities and inefficiencies. Whether or not these problems have affected prior election results (I doubt it), they are a festering sore that undermines the legitimacy of the state’s voting returns.
Today’s NYT reports on a new report commissioned by Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner identifying a host of problems in the voting systems used throughout the state and calling for another round of reforms.
At polling stations, teams working on the study were able to pick locks to access memory cards and use hand-held devices to plug false vote counts into machines. At boards of election, they were able to introduce malignant software into servers.
Ms. Brunner proposed replacing all of the state