Fairfax County Registrar Cameron Sasnett demonstrates one of the county's new voting machines. To retain a paper trail, voters will first fill out paper ballots and then feed those paper forms into scanners that tally the votes. (WTOP/Max Smith)
Fairfax County Registrar Cameron Sasnett demonstrates one of the county's new voting machines. To retain a paper trail, voters will first fill out paper ballots and then feed those paper forms into scanners that tally the votes. (WTOP/Max Smith)
It wont stop fraud on the front end but there is a paper record.
My precinct in Fairfax uses a similar system. Fill out a paper ballot feed it into an optical scanner.
There is a paper record if there is a challenge.
I thought they were going to roll out a wooden box with a slot and padlock attached.
Anytime I see a headline that says something in such a definitive way, I expect a joke.
I have a solution. 40 year old technology. I remember taking tests at the end of every school year. We had to fill in the little circles with a #2 pencil so they could be tallied up by a machine. Voting could be done the same way. Fill in the circles, insert into a “vote card reader” and computers tally things up and forward the results. Faster than hand counting, yet there’s still a hard copy for possible recount. Also, hand counts could be taken randomly to assure the computer count is accurate.