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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by Operyl on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:12AM (#22235111)
Exactly. I think that machines can be used just fine in a very specific configuration. I.e. you go to a machine, select the choices you want, that machine prints out a ballot with your choices. You review that ballot. If the ballot is correct, you go over to a tabulation machine, feed it in, and call it a day. That machine retains the paper ballots if verification is needed.

EDIT: And if someone wants to fill out a paper ballot manually, let them. Just have a few spares around, most people won't.

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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by badwolf on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:54AM (#22235495)
This is how the new voting machines we use here in Austin work.

Big friendly, easy to use touch screen, it then prints your ballot on paper, in big friendly easy to read lettering. You then feed that into another machine. There's the e-voting, as well as paper ballot paper trail.

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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by hoseja on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:09AM (#22235651)
WHY does anyone need electronic voting in the first place? How much of an inconvenience is it to make a mark next to your choice on a piece of paper? I feel like there is some insane American reason to make voting machines but I can't comprehend it.
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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by Operyl on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:35AM (#22235927)
In Florida, our ballets are very long legal pieces of paper and can sometimes be 7-8 pages worth... So I definitely see the appeal here. The font is tiny for the population, as well. A lot of our population has problems filling the bubbles too (because of varying physical conditions).
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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by the_snooze on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:46AM (#22236058)
Ballot marking devices are riskier than hand-marked ballots. A forthcoming study found that few people check what the machines print out, and even fewer actually report discrepancies to poll workers.

https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/bmd-verifiability-sp20.pdf

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