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In reply to the discussion: Alabama Court Injunction: Preserve ALL Ballots [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)But that's what I was saying. It doesn't ask for actual ballots, but "images" of ballots. Images are not normally made of ballots. That's extremely expensive (I used to have imaging of documents made in my job...it's very costly. There's a charge for each image, plus handling charges and such. I doubt small districts would have the money for that. I got a quote once for about 50 boxes of documents. The cost to image was going to be about $10,000.)
So I guess the effect is that if a district can't afford to image them, they will preserve the actual ballots, if they didn't have electronic voting.
I haven't used a paper ballot in years. Most seem to have gone to electronic voting. There are no ballots at all, but there may be images of the votes I punched in, associated with my name? Not sure how that works or what it looks like on the electronic counting side I would think that what they would have is a printout of voter name, and who each voted for and the date, in a report format (plus the sign-in sheets).