From Florida to California, the nation’s flirtation with electronic voting is on the rocks. More and more states and counties are reverting to paper ballots fed through optical scanners because of problems — some real, some perceived — with machines that didn’t offer the level of security and transparency voters demand.
New Mexico began the about-face in 2006, after a 2004 presidential election in which nearly 20,000 ballots could not be counted. President Bush won the state by 5,988 votes.
—-Get out your pencils: Paper ballots make a return
Good for New Mexico! As I’ve written before, I love voting here. They allow early voting, so in my town, at least, there is essentially no waiting in line. You go to the voting place of your choice, tell them your name, sign a signature pad and get your ballot.
You take your ballot to one of the privacy areas and mark it with a pencil.
Then you feed your ballot into the ballot counter and you’re done.
There is no electronic voting machine to be hacked, and if there is any doubt there is a paper trail that can be checked.
What is it like to vote where you are?
February 19, 2018
So far, where I live in Canada, it’s simple—just like you describe it. No word on electronic voting yet, although it’s inevitable that it will eventually arrive!
I would be surprised. I’m guessing Canada will learn from our mistakes. 🙂
EVMs with voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) system is in operation here.
That paper trail is so important.
yours is exactly the same way ours is done.
and I much prefer it too.
as a matter of fact I don’t think we ever used the electronic way.
probably too costly.
we are also allowed to vote early here.
the marine started doing it in the military and has kept it up.
sometime I vote early but most times I just go. I never have to stand in line too long.
I enjoy voting, even if I don’t always like the candidates. It’s friendly and makes me feel good.
paper but then folded up and slipped into a cardboard ballot box – in the esepcially designated box – so you could find a number of ballot boxes depenind where you are voting espec from one in another zone…
some postal votes, in free post envelope
That must take a long time to count. We do have some postal elections, for local stuff like school bonds.