To: Peach
Exactly. I don't buy this for a minute. It's my understanding that voters are asked TWICE if their selection is correct. And how do poll workers know it marked Bush if it's electronic? It goes into a database.
11 posted on
11/05/2002 6:51:25 AM PST by
rintense
To: rintense
Each voter gets a printed receipt from the machine. If the votes are not what they wanted, they can take it to a poll worker to cancel the vote and get it changed.
To: rintense
You're right. I used these machines in the primary. You can't vote for someone you don't want to, it lists who've you've voted for and asks if these are the selections you wish to make.
If not, you can go back and revote. It also tells you if you failed to vote in any of the categories, and then asks if you want to return to that category to vote.
108 posted on
11/05/2002 7:10:37 AM PST by
dawn53
To: rintense
There is absolutely no way you can tell if internally a vote for McBride was registered as a vote for Bush. However if the wrong touch screen area was pressed for Bush instead of for McBride, then they merely retouch the hi lited area and it will reset so that the voter can then press the proper area over. Once the voter is satified they just press the area to vote. Then and only then is the vote recorded internally.
This is just a bunch of Bull and the person makinmg the claim should be held accountable.
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