Election Reform
In reply to the discussion: Were Electronic Voting Machines Hacked? - Did Hillary Actually Win All Those States? [View all]aggiesal
(9,477 posts)Everyone should be pressuring their Registrar of Voters or whatever title your local head election official uses,
to start using a paper ballot.
We use a paper ballot in San Diego County, then feed them through the scanner to count the ballots.
There are approximately 2000 precincts in all of San Diego County.
But we only have around 200 scanners.
In the past, when the polls closed, the precinct workers would hand count the ballots, and
every ballot was counted by 11pm., midnight in the larger precinct.
Then the form with all the tallied numbers along with the ballots were sent to the ROV to record.
But since we only have 10% of the scanning machines to the number of precincts, it becomes a huge
hassle to make sure all the ballots are counted. There is huge conveyor system of workers trying
to count the ballots, and they don't finish until about 6am.
Then scanners and the hand count should match, otherwise hand-counting only the election
that did not match should occur.