My precinct (in Michigan) use laptops for voter registration information.
Their 2nd suggestion sounds like they are going backwards, although I’m not sure that it wouldn’t be more accurate. But SLOW!
I don’t know about anybody else but I know that my “finger” signature on a tablet looks nothing like my real signature. This sounds like more slippery slope stuff.
What could go wrong?
Sounds good! I’ll never forget the time I showed up to vote in NYC, which still had the hand written ledgers with your many past years of signatures, and the poor soul behind the desk didn’t even know the alphabet well enough to be able to find the first letter of my last name.
When I pointed her to it, she offered me the first unsigned line. It was a name nowhere like mine, bur since she had been hired through a welfare program and was functionally illiterate, I just asked her if I could look and found my name and signed there. Heck, I could probably have voted for a lot of people that day all over NYC.
Not on an iPad, but I did this years ago at an early-voting station here in Alachua County, FL. I scanned the driver’s license, then used a “stick” to sign on a sensitive pad. The signature was compared to what is stored on the license. Nothing new.
They want to ID voters? Racist scum!
Since damn near anyone from an illegal Mexican to an illegal Muslim to a pet gopher can get a drivers license in AZ. this ought to really boost the Democrat/Marxist party results.
“Those ballots will be counted at the end of the evening in the county’s elections department.
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By putting the ballots in a secure box rather than scanning them on site, officials hope to cut down on the number of optical scanners it will need to buy for the next election cycle.”
I can tell them from experince it will take all day to run 5,000 ballots through a scanner. This is done every election in Portland, ME for the absentee (early voting) ballots. They start running them through the machines on Monday and finish on Tuesday afternoon and then run the final 100 or so on Tuesday night (ballots that have come in during the day via mail or walk in).
I can’t completely remember what I had to do just last week, but I do remember having to produce a driver license...and there was an electronic device that scanned a code on it, and my name and address info popped up on a screen. The poll worker asked me to cite my address. What I don’t remember is whether or not I had to sign anything - I vaguely believe it was a stylus on the I-Pad like device. This was Kansas.
Sure, while we’re at it, why not just vote by phone, like American Idol?
A liberal activist told me that voter ID is nonsense because “99% of vote fraud is absentee”. It’s still worth having voter ID, but I’d like to see absentee and early voting done with verification too.