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demtenjeep

(31,997 posts) Sun Nov 4, 2012, 04:03 PM Nov 2012

our voting machines had a printed record on the side to record our votes

I knew this, but hubby (who doesn't really pay attention to these things) talked about it after we left the voting place.

He was one person before me in the voting line and was waiting right outside when he got done voting to make room for other people waiting to vote.

We were walking to our jeep and he said "did you notice that there was a printed tally on the side to make sure our votes were recorded correctly"

I was so proud of him because he doesn't really pay attention to things like that.

Made me realize that more people hear all the crap and even tho they dont' talk about it, they know!!!

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our voting machines had a printed record on the side to record our votes (Original Post) demtenjeep Nov 2012 OP

Nice, and you have to wonder why they also don't have WORM devices jenw2 Nov 2012 #1

What's to keep someone from making a new printout cprise Nov 2012 #2

And in Ohio, that paper roll is the official ballot Ms. Toad Nov 2012 #3

jenw2

(374 posts)

1. Nice, and you have to wonder why they also don't have WORM devices

Reply to demtenjeep (Original post)

Sun Nov 4, 2012, 04:29 PM

Nov 2012

(write once read many)

At work we use Memory Vault USB drives from SanDisk on our cash registers. You know the Republican groups that make these machines could use a product like that if they actually wanted to prevent tampering.

cprise

(8,445 posts)

2. What's to keep someone from making a new printout

Reply to demtenjeep (Original post)

Mon Nov 5, 2012, 01:12 AM

Nov 2012

showing different candidate choices? Who would be able to tell?

Its much harder to falsify individual paper ballots because a person has to mark each one by hand and it would take much greater physical effort to falsify large numbers of them.

There is nothing "make sure" about a computer-printed voting log. Computers could print altered ones when no one else is looking and no one would be able to tell. It is a very cheap and contemptuous way to go through the motions of being "accurate".

Ms. Toad

(34,075 posts)

3. And in Ohio, that paper roll is the official ballot

Reply to demtenjeep (Original post)

Mon Nov 5, 2012, 01:18 AM

Nov 2012

(Or the optical scan ballots, if voting is done by optical scan).

Granted, it hasn't been tested yet in terms of reconstructing the election from them (a monumental task), but it is important to check and make sure that what is printed out is accurate - both because there can be calibration issues, and because it is (in some states) the official record.

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