Some Tennessee voters say they touched one candidate’s name on a voting machine but saw a different name selected. State election officials say unintended touches can cause that to happen.
Ah. We had one of those in Australia in my memory. All came down to a weird iconoclastic independent called Rod who finally announced his choice in a press conference where he famously took twenty minutes to actually announce his choice. Milked it right to the end.
Note that the paper ballots generally don’t take longer to count, they are generally digitally scanned in the same way the printouts from the touchscreen machines are.
It might speed up voting as a tap is a little faster than filling a bubble, but then again a wide tip marker would fix that, but then you might spoil more ballots when people aren’t sure if they mismarked it.
Nothing. Americans getting ripped off by some company selling bullshit at the expense of their democratic legitimacy.
You can count the votes faster… but who cares about that when you can just take longer?
Likewise, electronic voting just introduces the doubt of legitimacy, even if voting is totally safe and legit.
Here in Sweden votes usually take about a week to finish counting, including re-checks and such. It’s not so bad.
What is bad is that we’re 40 days in and the government still hasn’t been established. Useless pieces of shit.
Ah. We had one of those in Australia in my memory. All came down to a weird iconoclastic independent called Rod who finally announced his choice in a press conference where he famously took twenty minutes to actually announce his choice. Milked it right to the end.
Wasn’t 40 days though. Only a bit over two weeks.
Note that the paper ballots generally don’t take longer to count, they are generally digitally scanned in the same way the printouts from the touchscreen machines are.
It might speed up voting as a tap is a little faster than filling a bubble, but then again a wide tip marker would fix that, but then you might spoil more ballots when people aren’t sure if they mismarked it.
I guess but we still have pencils and teams of humans counting. I agree its the safest and easiest to audit.
Swapping a pen or marker could spoil a box if some funky ink is introduced.