I live in Central NY State, and the machines they are using read your ballot when it is inserted. It only registers your vote, and doesn’t show your actual candidate choices on the small screen. With all the fraud that goes on, it makes me wonder how reliable these machines are.
Our voting machines are computers but they aren’t touch screens. There is a dial type thing that you turn and as you turn it it moves from one choice to the other. When you have what you want highlighted you push the enter button. When you are finished on the page a little American flag waves to let you know to go the next page. At the end you click “check my entries” and a summary comes up. If you are satisfied, you click the “Cast Ballot” button. If not you click the “go back” button. Very easy and as idiot proof as you can make them. I don’t know why they aren’t the standard.