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[Wilms]

Crispini's Election Judge Experience at a Fully HAVA Compliant Precinct

by Crispini

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Our main voting method on election day is paper ballots with an optical scan counter at the precinct. (ES&S) Our county elections administrator likes this system and I tend to agree with him. If the machine goes down you can keep voting, and you can always recount the ballots if you need to. This USED to be the only method available to the voters on election day.

At the end of the day we print out polling tapes, box up the ballots, & seal them, pull the card & seal it, fill out reports, and schlep everything over to the office. Polling tapes for everyone who wants them, including observers, etc.

Yes, of course, the flash memory cards or tabulator software could be tampered with behind the scenes but from the viewpoint of the election judge, at least there is always the paper backup. The new optical scanners will beep if there is an overvote or a problem reading the ballot and apparently all of my precinct's voters had no problem with the ovals since nobody had a ballot kicked back to them.

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