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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by beat on Thursday March 14, 2019 @04:53PM (#19393593)
The part I don't like is the printer. They're woefully unreliable devices. Having been an election judge, handling a bunch of flaky tech in polling places is the last thing the poll workers need. They have a lot to do already.

In MN, we use paper ballots with Scantron readers for excellent results. I'm not sure what problem this new system is supposed to solve that the Scantron model doesn't.

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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by jfoutz on Thursday March 14, 2019 @09:20PM (#19395604)
My grandma has shaky hands. She can’t really fill out a scantron. I have no problem with people filling out their own ballots. The pristine filled out and verified by the voter ballot seems harder to spoil than a hand filled out ballot.

My preference is for plenty of machines available to fill out paper ballots, but give voters the option of filling out by hand.

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