[FreeAtlanta]

I worry about the cards getting to the counters.

We give them to the poll work, it is put in a pile on the table, then what?

I think it is a grew argument ag as inst having any indicator of who you are voting for. Colors, hats etc. You don’t want you card “recycled”.

[FreeAtlanta]

Wow, just re-read that and it read like a Hillary stroke.

I typed it out on my phone while waiting for Zestos fast food. Apologies to all.

[poconopundit]

Yes, are you referring to the yellow plastic cards that have a chip on them and look like credit cards?

I thought about that today, too.  I was concerned that by linking the data at the registration table to the voting booth machine, the voting officials would be able to figure who I voted for. But I thought about this a bit and here's what I concluded.

• First, the yellow cards cannot store new information. They are read-only. So no voting information is voting data is held in the yellow cards
  
  
• The yellow cards are designed to be rotated -- used by many voters. There should be enough yellow cards for each machine plus a number of spares to account for people waiting in line as they go through the registration process and wait for a polling machine to free up.
  
  
• One purpose of the yellow cards is to verify that someone at the voting booth actually went through the registration process.
  
  
• Second, when polls close and it's time to pull data from each polling machine at a precinct, the number of times a particular yellow card was used can be added up and compared to the number of times the registration machines signed in a particular yellow card for use. It serves as an audit check.

Would love to hear from an expert to tell me if my analysis is correct.