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Simple Video to protect your vote
Please watch and pass it on....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKv6uuoYKEU
Posted:
Oct 29 2008, 2:33 PM EDT by Anonymous
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tidbit on voting machines (Pima County AZ)
I don't know if this will be useful at all, but am posting it anyway. Yesterday I went to a training for election day. Through my job I am going to be helping with any technical difficulties (at a very low level).
I learned that IF the ballot-reading machine is working, there are several situations in which it will spit out the ballot and the person can either get another ballot (the first one would be "spoiled") or re-submit, including:
- If the person has not marked any of the ovals (eg checking off next to the names/votes rather than coloring in the ovals)
- If the person's marks in the ovals goes too far outside any oval in the direction of the paper's edge (there are timing marks that tell the machine how fast to move the paper through the scanner so it can be properly read.)
If, however, the machine is down for any reason, there is an "emergency bin" on the side of the voting box that workers open for people to cast their ballots. Later, when the machine has been fixed, poll workers (I think -- someone official) would feed those ballots into the machine.
So I asked: In that case, what happens to people who have made the kind of errors that would, if the machine was working, have resulted in the ballot being spit out and them having another try?
The answer was: their votes will not be counted -- but thankfully the machines very very seldom go down.
Again, this is Pima county AZ, don't know how other counties or states work
Posted:
Oct 17 2008, 6:18 PM EDT by
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