I’m curious how else people are voting? Do they actually use touchscreens for voting? I’ve only even known paper ballots, and they’re fed into a machine to be tallied.
I’ll tell you my story. Wife and I went in a little before 5 pm. No lines. Individually we gave our names, signed a little screen with a rubbery stylus and then it came up and compared to previous signature. Not a bad match, but I could see the inherent problems this would cause.
Here’s the kicker....in our area (there were about 3 other areas in this municipal building), they had two of these small LCD consoles on the desks where the ladies were helping us out individually. Apparently, the console being used by my ‘helper’ was having some issues and she was getting frustrated when she blurted out (right in front of all of us, mind you) - “What’s the dang password to this thing?”. There were maybe 10-15 regular old voter folks in the room, and maybe 3-4 ‘officials’.
This young kid, I’d say maybe 25 tops, shoots back to her “It’s _______”. He was the guy that sits by the curtained booth and resets the machine for the next voter. The booth was merely a 30x36 panel where you would press each of your choices and a little LED would back-light your selection. When you had made all of your choices, you would press a VOTE button.
I was absolutely flabbergasted that he just said the system password right in front of us all. I live in Somerset County. The password that he clearly blurted out was astoundingly, astonishing simple. I couldn’t believe it.....
I have to write someone in power about this.
NJ voter. Atlantic County which went red. They looked up my name on a computer. Guessing they checked to see if I already voted. Signed a paper ballot that I handed over to girl as I went to machine. Also signed my name to a computer screen.