Well I voted today, as I hope all of you who are eligible did also. My polling location was the Purdue Memorial Union on the campus of (where else) Purdue University. It was quick and easy — there weren’t even any lines, there were plenty of polling machines (of the new touch-screen variety but not, thankfully, ones made by Diebold), and I was in and out in less than 5 minutes.

The one really, incredibly, supremely odd thing was that no one checked my ID, despite Indiana law requiring a valid photo ID to vote. I walked in, wrote my name down on an index card-sized form, they looked me up in a binder where I signed my name, and they gave me a voting card with which I activated one of the machines and voted. That was it. No ID check. I could have walked in there and given them the name of any registered voter in the precinct and voted in his name. I think before we start worrying about the security holes in the voting machines we should worry about the security holes in the people administering the polling locations.