In Sacramento County we use the Scantron-style ballots: fill in the bubble next to your candidate of choice, using black ink. The scanner does an instant tally, but has no wireless connection, and it indicates overvotes and undervotes (no vote on issue/candidate) and will spit them back out unless the voter tells it to go ahead.
Quick results. Paper trail. And since the ballots are printed custom for each election, no confusion from trying to fit the election ballot to a standardized form. Handicapped assistance is provided by the poll workers— I filled out several ballots for visually challenged people in 2004, meaning I got to fill in bubbles for just about every side. :)
It's probably cheaper, too. And it's been in use long enough that the bugs are well and thoroughly worked out. (I repeat: No wireless.)
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Date: 2006-09-30 03:01 am (UTC)Quick results. Paper trail. And since the ballots are printed custom for each election, no confusion from trying to fit the election ballot to a standardized form. Handicapped assistance is provided by the poll workers— I filled out several ballots for visually challenged people in 2004, meaning I got to fill in bubbles for just about every side. :)
It's probably cheaper, too. And it's been in use long enough that the bugs are well and thoroughly worked out. (I repeat: No wireless.)