paper ballots

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

we had voting in our state today.....i am sure some of you are watching the primary coverage.

interestingly,we used PAPER ballots (fill in a oval with a black penfor your choices) today and then fed them into a machine to record our votes. are other states going back to using paper ballots? it seems we had been using voting machines for quite some time now.

they were also out of the I VOTED stickers!

i guess that is a GOOD thing though.

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Goldengate8361 · ‎01-27-2014

@sunshine45 - you're not from the "sunshine state" are you? I hope we are not going to have hanging chads (?) in the near future.😃

I am still oxox · ‎03-09-2010

New York has had the paper ballots for a few years, I thought they were being used across the country

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being positive what could go right.

Ms X · ‎09-13-2012

I also like the idea of paper ballots. They provide a record that can be recounted or otherwise audited. Many people have raised concerns about all-electronic voting because of the problem of hacking and manipulation and the lack of a paper trail.

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

Does anyone know if you can vote by mail for the primaries ... or do you have to go in person?

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
Does anyone know if you can vote by mail for the primaries ... or do you have to go in person?

we have absentee voting AND we have early in-person voting in certain polling places. today was our official primary election day.

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sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

@Ms X wrote:
I also like the idea of paper ballots. They provide a record that can be recounted or otherwise audited. Many people have raised concerns about all-electronic voting because of the problem of hacking and manipulation and the lack of a paper trail.

that is what the election official told me as i was checking in to vote. he said they wanted the paper ballots in case there needed to be an audit or if there were any problems. i just have not seen a paper ballot in quite a while in our state.

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sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

@Goldengate8361 wrote:
@sunshine45 - you're not from the "sunshine state" are you? I hope we are not going to have hanging chads (?) in the near future.😃

LOL......NO......i am in the "america in miniature state"......maryland.

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"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein

Ms X · ‎09-13-2012

@sunshine45 wrote:
@Ms X wrote:
I also like the idea of paper ballots. They provide a record that can be recounted or otherwise audited. Many people have raised concerns about all-electronic voting because of the problem of hacking and manipulation and the lack of a paper trail.

that is what the election official told me as i was checking in to vote. he said they wanted the paper ballots in case there needed to be an audit or if there were any problems. i just have not seen a paper ballot in quite a while in our state.

I have paper ballots with the optical scanner where I live. Before I moved here, we had the machines with the levers. I totally agree about the importance of paper, but that doesn't seem to be where we are going. I've heard talk in the media about voting over the Internet. Maybe the structure for that would be secure, but as it is now I don't know how that would work. How would you know who was who? It's better to keep paper. Even that can be manipulated by changing or adding to the store of paper ballots, I guess, but all-electronic seems easier to manipulate. I'm not a tech person, so maybe there are things I don't know about it. It is something that worries me.

Kalli · ‎03-11-2010

Right when I got up to the person who takes each name and gives them a number, the poll worker realized they had misnumbered the voters and had to go back and recheck again.....again......again. Twenty minutes later they figured it out. Meanwhile the line got quite long. A group of university students were turned away because while they live near me, they were supposed to vote on campus.

Glad to finally vote and leave.