It's 2016 right? I didn't go back in time??

Ours (in the UK) are horrible, they feel so unofficial, I swear one time I voted and the ballot was like, printed askew on paper that was also cut askew. And you mark the box with like, a little golf pencil

Nivaya: it's something that prevents voting - i almost left today due to the wait. they had paper ballots and ONE scan machine... only took 20 mins to vote but there was another hour wait just to scan ballot.

Nivaya: if you paper vote - is it then scanned in by you or do you drop it with another person?

We put it in a little locked metal mailbox, and then they're counted manually. Elections are all very low-tech here. Which I suppose some would see as a good thing, but, it makes me feel icky.

i'm of the icky thought too

That's CRAZY that you had to wait so long. As much as I'm griping about how basic our ballots are, when I vote I'm in and out in literally 3 minutes.

couldn't someone just misplace them, fake them, etc? it's not like your name and signature are on a ballot

we've had electronic / touch screen voting machines here for MANY years... so i don't know why the change

prolly because someone has egged on the conspiracy theorists

I think the ballots are taken to the counting place under police guard. But the way they're counted, they literally just dump them out on tables and go through them by hand.

they switched to that becausethe computers they had were notoriously unreliable

also, a lteas tyou didnt spend this week watching footage of a stupid ass truck holding the voting machines.

kesseret: and the paper ballots + scanning machines are better? we had touchscreen voting at this same place last november. it makes no sense to change. how were they unreliable?

VixieRayna: they broke. ALL THE TIME

do different districts use different machines? i never saw an issue with ours here in amherst. not saying that some weren't crap but... ONE fucking scanner for a place that serves 10k or more is ridiculous.

no the state board handles them. in a few weeks I'll call oir registrar and ask her how exactly it all works. she's been busy forever