I do not think these bozos understand that they are handicapping their own voters as well as their opposition's voters.
Being able to pop into any election location and vote has stopped the "oh no you can't vote here, you have to go to XXX! It's 6:45, do you think you can make it? " Our voters will have anywhere from 200 to 350 places to vote on Election Day (depending on the type of election).
Our only option prior to Voting Centers was to have the voter vote provisionally, which could possibly eliminate certain contests from the ballot.
The system we use is user-friendly, very secure and has all paper ballots with the voter's selections printed on the document. If the voter realizes they accidentally voted for the wrong person, we can spoil the ballot and issue a new one. Our voting machines are touch screens with no memory; they do not even produce a total # of votes per machine. We have other equipment which does that.
Hopefully the House will tell the Senate to go take a hike. I know my State House Rep will vote No. I have not heard anything so it is possible it did not get out of committee. The 90 counties which use this process are all the high population counties, (7 total) and a mix of the lower population counties. Most of those have at least one city of 50,000.
The county judge here wants to completely replace this brand new system, go back to precinct only voting, hand marked paper ballots (nothing electronic) which would be counted and tallied by the precinct workers prior to sending to the Elections Office.
This judge would also like to do away with Early Voting and Mail In Voting if he could get away with it. He has already driven off our most excellent Elections Administrator.
We just finished Early Voting; on the last day, a uniformed officer from the County Sheriff's department showed up to watch our elections workers load up the ballots and other items required by the county for closing out the election. She was there when we closed the polls, recorded the totals from all the machines which produce them, sealed and locked all the equipment, and prepared the ballot carrier for transport (also locked and sealed)
Utterly ridiculous!
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