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i can tell you this drak: here in ct we've taken a 90 degree turn where electronic machines are concerned.
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I hear ya. Same thing here in California. E-voting machines were not certified by the Secretary of State. As posted elsewhere, I think e-voting machines are not ready for prime time. I posted what the California ballot looked like. You indicated your vote by using a black or blue ballpoint pen to complete the middle of a broken arrow. When your ballot was marked then you fed your two ballot sheets into a big scanner box that retained the ballots.
Seems to be a fairly reliable, tamper proof, and safe system. Paper ballots and electronic tabulation with the scanner.
The scanner apparently does some error checking on the ballots, as a friend told me he accidentally voted yes and no on the same item and the machine rejected the ballot. He was given a new ballot to mark.
I'm somewhat disappointed there was no ID checking like they told us there would be. However, for many years the polling place had a list showing all voters with that polling location, and you have to sign the list where your name is listed and print your residence address.