Trump allies have become fixated on "Sharpiegate," a controversy alleging that MAGA voters in ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Dave Weigel Retweeted

Trump allies have become fixated on "Sharpiegate," a controversy alleging that MAGA voters in Arizona were tricked into using Sharpies to have their votes invalidated. But elections officials say there's no problem reading or counting those ballots.

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[mercuryblues]

1. More like they intentionally used sharpies

because trump uses them

lemmings. fuck.them.all.

[LiberalArkie]

2. They could invalidate a ballot if the use a big one. It might bleed out of the intended oval into

another one.

[Ms. Toad]

10. Ballots are designed so that the bubbles on one side don't bleed into reading channels

on the back.

As to the front there are two primary means of reading.

One scans the entire ballot and then snips the votes out of the entire image. The other scans the locations where bubbles are expected to be.

In both cases, the counting technology focuses on the center of the bubble and counts darkened pixels in the bubble image. Bleed from an adjacent bubble would not bleed far enough into the adjacent bubble to count - and if it did, the machine would register an overvote and the voter would be given the option to remark a clean ballot to correct the overvote.

[SoCalNative]

3. Never let a good conspiracy go to waste

[BeyondGeography]

4. It's always something

[gratuitous]

5. Ever the victims

Like the old man (some attribute it to Mark Twain) lamented, "I've had a great many troubles in his life, but the worst of them never happened."

[Saboburns]

6. That's what we spent the $300 Million on-Sharpies. Genius really.

Looks like our sharpie strategy paid off. I admit I was skeptical late last week standing in K-Mart with three armfuls of sharpies. But you fellas was right.

Atta boy, gang!

[Miigwech]

7. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Leith]

8. Nevada voting instructions said to use a blank ink pen, not a pencil or sharpie

Read and follow instructions and you won't have problems, trumpanzees!

[fleur-de-lisa]

9. If it is true (and it's not)

TOUGH SHIT!

Learn to read, you fucking MORANS.

You know, of course, republican states are tossing out or 'losing' Democratic mail-in votes, so fuck these damn crybabies.

[lame54]

11. How were they tricked?