Yeah, doesn't make much sense. Why would anyone want to slow down a computer? How would they know how fast it was running in the first place, and then how much to slow it down by? And why would they think that jamming a paper clip in an apparently random location would slow the machine down? Finally, how does changing the processing speed help anyone alter the vote count? For sure, a short circuit is one way to disable a machine, but what good does that do? I don't think it would invalidates the stored votes (unless it's designed that way, of course). I think we're witnessing stupidity here more than anything nefarious.