Does Silicon Valley have those horrible machines ?

[steve2470]

I would think the voters of Silicon Valley would be horrified of those machines. Yes, I know not everyone in Silicon Valley is tech savvy. Just a random thought on Election night.

[EFerrari]

1. Santa Clara County is getting dirtier and dirtier every year.

One DUer went in for poll work training and was instructed to discourage people from using paper ballots. And they are not intending to post precinct totals.

[MzNov]

2. San Mateo Co. had one new voting machine

all the rest were paper voting booths. I went for the machine, since I had my camera with me. And I'm not all that sure about paper ballots being counted either. But things went very well. We can hope.


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[hvn_nbr_2]

3. We do have paper trail printers on our Diebolds here.

After you go through the 17 (!yes, 17!) screens of voting, it displays on the screen a summary of your votes. If you say that's right, they print out a summary on a scrolling paper under a glass shield, for you to review. Then if you say that's right, your vote gets recorded.

After the report of a DUer who's working a polling place said they're discouraging paper ballots and doing a convoluted process with them (you mark a sample ballot, then an election worker copies your votes to a real ballot, and an optical scanner--I think--scans that one), I decided that the paper trail Diebold sounded more secure. Especially since the county election head that made that decision sounded like such an a-hole.

BTW, I work in a software company. After the 2004 heist, I said I thought Diebold stole it, and even the very liberal and very (very) smart software engineers thought I was out of my mind. Even after I told them about changing the exit polls in the middle of the night. Go figure.