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> Marking machines allow voters to make their selections for their ballot and then physically print them to be cast and counted. As someone not from the US: Wh
by echoangle 2y ago
> Marking machines allow voters to make their selections for their ballot and then physically print them to be cast and counted.
As someone not from the US:
Why do you need that? What’s the advantage over manually filling out a piece of paper?
The machine can’t use the data of printed ballots for anything if I can print multiple ballots, so it’s just a glorified pen making a checkmark?
- boomboomsubban 2y agoIt limits the user error pens cause. You can look up old disputed ballots, many of them are things like; people sloppily starting to fill out A then realizing they really want B, making such a large checkmark that it covers A and part of B, or those pranksters that fully color in A B and C. As this shows, it still allows some user error, but they hope for less.