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Response to bearsfootball516 (Original post)
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bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)You vote electronically and it spits out your ballot with all the choices marked. You then put that ballot in an electronic vote counter, and the ballot falls into a lockbox which can be accessed for manual paper recounts if needed.
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watoos
(7,142 posts)Why not just let people hand count paper ballots with observers present from both parties?
I have been voting into a black hole for decades, no paper trail, no nothing. Pa. is getting new voting machines but Republicans are fighting to keep them out until after the election.
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Hekate
(90,645 posts)Just ask. One of the peculiarities of our system is that we have 50 different sets of laws about voting, and then individual counties may have different voting apparatus.
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)and get a replacement if it somehow gets disappeared.
No system is perfect but I feel a lot more secure than with many of those machines.
Hekate
(90,645 posts)...and the computer does the big tally.
I am a big believer in having a paper trail, but let's make it all the way up the line. And for those who think the counting must all be done that very night so the tv stations can call it and the balloons can drop -- bull. Nothing in the Constitution mandates that we cater to television anchors.