2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAll states need paper ballots.
Fill in the bubble, place it into the scanner.
That way there is a paper trail.
That or mail in ballots, this is ludicrous.
Fichefinder
(167 posts)Do we really need to have our results within seconds of the polls closing? 100% hand counting as a check against scanner tampering seems like a no brainer.
Zoonart
(11,869 posts)MSMBC reporting 19 reports from around the state of PA that voters cast electronic ballots for Trump that were flipped to Hillary.
Trump and RNC are filing suit to have the machines in doubt removed for the rest of the day.
This is what I feared. That the illusion of a tight race would allow some bullshit claims to be made so that Trump could accuse the Democrats of rigging the voting machines.
we need to do paper ballots, and get rid of the computers.
LostinRed
(840 posts)They do in Nevada
Zoonart
(11,869 posts)The effected machines have NO paper backup. WTF? What century is this that we can't have a secure system that is uniform all across the country?
apnu
(8,758 posts)Each thing we are voting on has a broken line, we use a felt pen to finish the line that is our choice. The ballot is huge too, about 2 feet long. And there were two of them this year. One for voting on people and the other for voting on various ballot measures and a constitutional amendment.
They look like this, which is the constitutional sample.