No staff, lights off: Unattended voting center in Belmont raises election security concerns

What happened

According to Local News Matters’s source item, No staff, lights off: Unattended voting center in Belmont raises election security concerns, A San Mateo County voter who tried to cast her ballot at a voting center in Belmont over the weekend said that the location was left unattended, raising concerns over election security. On Sunday evening, Madelyn Webster and her husband arrived at a voting location at Notre Dame de Namur University’s Taube Center to drop […] The post No staff, lights off: Unattended voting center in Belmont raises election security concerns appeared first on Local News Matters .

Context

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What to watch

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Source

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