[palmer]

I voted in Virginia but I have a question about your ballot. I assume you clicked "print" and your printed ballot had the correct ovals filled in. Did it also have a QR code? The question being asked is whether the tabulator reads that QR code or whether it reads the filled ovals that you verified.

But there's an easy answer to their question. Take a small sample of ballots and make sure the QR code matches the filled ovals. That should be part of any audit.

[Religion and Politics]

I voted in Virginia but I have a question about your ballot. I assume you clicked "print" and your printed ballot had the correct ovals filled in. Did it also have a QR code? The question being asked is whether the tabulator reads that QR code or whether it reads the filled ovals that you verified.

But there's an easy answer to their question. Take a small sample of ballots and make sure the QR code matches the filled ovals. That should be part of any audit.

To be completely honest, the QR code was not part of what I remember of the printed ballot. What was printed was a very clear validation of the selections I made on the machine and easy to check all the way through. My recollection is that I was impressed to have a printed ballot representing my selections. I liked it.

If the ballots were hand recounted from the printed verified selections and the counts matched the ones derived by scanning the QR codes (which they did) then it really doesn't matter what is encoded in the QR code. But I agree that it wouldn't be a huge problem to verify if the QR code represented the intent of the voter.