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This just sounds like a really expensive pencil if all it does it print it out on paper.
by ollien 8y ago
This just sounds like a really expensive pencil if all it does it print it out on paper.
- jfoutz 8y agoIt can be a super helpful assistive tech. Also you can make selections before hand, and still secure the actual ballots. Tracking all printed, spoiled and cast ballots can be helpful. Also, you get to examine the actual ballot before casting your vote, even if you don’t fill it out with a pencil.
- jacobolus 8y agoPeople marking paper ballots manage to screw up the marking in every conceivable way, and when those are recounted in a close race, whoever is doing the counting can exercise some discretion in edge cases. Presumably a machine could guarantee that the ballot was filled out correctly and not spoiled. For example, in a 2017 election for a seat of the Virginia House which would have switched party control, an election recount came up one vote in favor of the Democrat, but then GOP officials declared that a (clearly spoiled under any reasonable interpretation of the official rules for counting) ballot should count for the GOP candidate, making the vote a tie. Another GOP official then decided the contest in the GOP candidate’s favor by drawing his name from a hat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_House_of_Delegates_election,_2017#Recounts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_House_of_Delegates_el...
- labster 8y agoI've been a poll worker. This is true. Once a race has two columns of candidates the voter errors spike, no matter how well designed the ballot is. I wish election results came with a margin of error calculation, because too many people assume that a vote result is 100% accurate. Especially to justify the result of a winner-take-all election.