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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by specialist on Friday March 15, 2019 @11:06AM (#19400333)
"Why not build a validation machine that voters can feed manually-completed optical scan ballots into, before they go to the tabulator?"

That's precisely how poll-based opscans work.

Central count (for postal ballots processing) is necessarily different, because that sanity check cannot be done, so voter intent must be adjudicated when ballots (or individual votes) are unreadable. It's a sausage factory.

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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by tivert on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:01PM (#19402401)
> That's precisely how poll-based opscans work.

I know, we have them in my district, but they don't do all the validation I was talking about. I think all that the current machines do is validate that there were no overvotes, etc. I was proposing a separate machine that would let the voter validate that the ballot would be read as they intended.

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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by specialist on Friday March 15, 2019 @05:25PM (#19404462)
Ah. Ya, that'd be neat. Thanks.
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