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Sunday, September 15, 2024

Connecticut is entering a new era with the first early in-person voting in a general election and a nearly invisible and overdue technological change -- the first, if limited, use of new tabulators that will count votes

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... Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas and Gov. Ned Lamont held a press conference Thursday to identify the nine cities and towns that will use the new tabulators in a pilot program before they become standard next year.

The voters' experience will be unchanged and might have gone without notice in another time. But Donald J. Trump's repeated and debunked claims of a stolen presidential election raise the profile of even the mechanics of voting

"Here we are in a day and age where people are casting shade on elections, the integrity of elections," Lamont said.

The foundations of the system are unchanged: Voters will make their choices on paper ballots, then place them in machines that scan and tabulate the votes. As always has been the case, the tabulators are not on line.

"You can double check -- you've got a paper backup," Lamont said. "You can actually count at the end of the day by hand, if you want to." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-14 12:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Why change anything based on complete falsehood?

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-14 10:10 AM | Reply

@#2 ... Why change anything based on complete falsehood? ...

Nothing is really changing.

All that is being done is the old scanners are being replaced with new ones because the old scanners are, well, old and sometimes do not work.

The marking of paper ballots by the voter will stay the same as it has been for many years.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-14 11:54 AM | Reply

Ah. Ok.

California switched their system several years ago - still paper ballots, just the way they're marked and read is different.
I.E., a physical ballot. Is there any state that has fully electronic ballots?

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-14 01:21 PM | Reply

@#4 ... a physical ballot.

Be careful with that.

There are states that use a touch-screen selection to print out a paper ballot showing the selection. The problem seems to be that the selection is also written out in a bar-code (which the voter cannot comprehend) and that bar-code is what the scanners read, not the voter markings.

Details:

Barcodes on paper ballots: the good, the bad, and the stealth (April 10, 2024)
freedom-to-tinker.com

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-15 05:58 PM | Reply

I miss the old lever machines.

Not because of the technology inside, that was crap. There was no way to confirm that your vote had been recorded properly, and a 'recount' was mostly pointless.

But the privacy was great, you stepped in, pulled the lever, and the curtain closed, nobody was going to shoulder surf your vote.

The early screens SUCKED. They're getting better now, here you can either fill in a paper ballot manually and feed it into a scanner or use a machine that generates it for you, there's no barcode, it scans as if you'd filled out the paper, and shows a confirmation screen so you can verify it scanned properly, it'll spit it back out if you press the no button.

#6 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-09-16 10:06 AM | Reply

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