a machine with levers. Now we have a paper ballot and a machine reads it. I have never been happy with a machine and there is no audit. There used to be in person tables where you sign a paper to say you voted etc. Now that part is on a tablet, a receipt is printed out, you are given the paper ballot. You fill it out and take it to the machine for your district now. The machine reads the ballot and then says ballot read. I photograph everything.
Something which has never happened did when my brother went to vote at 6am. There was a line. We usually never wait long, if it is later in the day or even then, it is a tiny district. The machine for our district was broken, there are only two machines usually now, and the person in charge told people from this district to put their ballots in a random box. My brother and another woman refused and asked her to call the elections board and get the machine fixed. She said she had called and they weren’t answering and refused to do anything. The woman kept calling and eventually got through. It took two hours. By the time I went to vote later the machine was fixed or had been replaced.
It was also in a much less accessible part of the school due to covid most likely but which made it harder for anyone with physical issues. I went back later with my father and it was very difficult for him he had to walk down several long hallways. He ended up falling on the pavement outside when we were leaving.
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