ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The same technology you use to get directions when you drive will be employed by St. Louis County election officials to track ballots on Nov. 5.
Poll workers will lock an iPhone in the ballot bag before it's transported.
Democratic Director of Elections Eric Fey tells KMOX the phones are used as trackers.
"We can know exactly where that ballot bag is coming back to the board of elections on election night," said Fey on Total Information A.M.
Fey says he and his Republican counterpart will be watching them move across a digital map on a monitor.
"For this coming election, 230 polling places will have 230 dots on that screen," said Fey. "And as the poll workers, the election judges from the polling places come back to our offices in a bipartisan team, those dots start moving. They start coming up I-270, Highway 40, stuff like that."
Fey says its for security and and to keep of track of what's arrived at headquarters and what hasn't.