Optical machines do not have chads. Those are "punch card" machines. The low toner comment doesn't make any sense. The ballots are printed BEFORE the election.

Optical machines do not have chads. Those are "punch card" machines. The low toner comment doesn't make any sense. The ballots are printed BEFORE the election. If you get a ballot that you can't read, you can return it to the pollster, they will mark the ballot as "unusable" and give you another. I know this because I've done this when I accidentally filled in the wrong circle. It's SOP. Incompletely filled-in bubbles is a real problem, true, but in my experience I've never seen this.