You then verify your choices on the touch screen. When you indicate that everything is correct, a printer attached to the touch screen prints the ballot. Each touch screen has its own printer.
You then verify the printed ballot before you feed it into the tabulation machine. You are the only person who ever touches your ballot.
Until the tabulator verifies the ballot, you have not voted. Once validated, it drops into a locked storage bin that can only be opened by the county Supervisor of Elections.
The only connection to the internet is the electronic screen that scans your SECURE Driver's License. It verifies that there are NO outstanding absentee ballots. If there are, you may not vote unless the system voids your absentee ballot.
WWG1WGA
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Interesting, thanks. Ours are mailed to us, we fill them out by hand, seal them, sign the envelope and return them (in our case) in person to our courthouse. They can be mailed in but we don’t do that. (Colorado)