Reply #181: I think Optiscan can be a problem, too.

[LiberalHeart]

Not sure I have this right, but I think Optiscan tabulators can be manipulated to produce false results. Something else I've wondered about re Optiscans is whether, when it's a two-sided ballot, someone could design a ballot that, if it were put in the machine with the wrong side up, could falsify the count. By that, I mean: could the filled in ovals from one side of the ballot be tabulated for the races on the other side of the ballot? This would take some fancy planning, but maybe it's possible. It crossed my mind this past election day because a poll worker took my ballot from me and fed it into the scan machine. Losing control of it at that point concerned me because the worker opened the folder the ballot was in and did some kind of adjustment to the ballot. This was after he appeared to have trouble getting the ballot to feed into the slot.

Seems to me that the forensic examination could be accomplished via existing open records and freedom of information laws. If not in Ohio, then in Florida where the open records law is pretty good.