fastcodesign: “Voters who vote by mail are not able to use ballot checking technologies. They may make a simple mistake. There may be a stray ink mark. The ink may smear when it’s stuck in the envelope.“ A simple smear of ink can be enough to have a vote thrown out altogether. NY doesn’t use lever machines anymore though. As Sean Hannity helpfully showed us all, I learned today we fill out a giant paper by hand in a “privacy booth” (that everyone waiting behind you in line for the scanner can see you do), and then we feed it into this electronic scanner thing like they use for scan-trons for the SATs after which it tells you, “Thank you, your vote has been counted”. | and she's not even pretty!

fastcodesign:

“Voters who vote by mail are not able to use ballot checking technologies. They may make a simple mistake. There may be a stray ink mark. The ink may smear when it’s stuck in the envelope.“
A simple smear of ink can be enough to have a vote thrown out altogether.

NY doesn’t use lever machines anymore though. As Sean Hannity helpfully showed us all, I learned today we fill out a giant paper by hand in a “privacy booth” (that everyone waiting behind you in line for the scanner can see you do), and then we feed it into this electronic scanner thing like they use for scan-trons for the SATs after which it tells you, “Thank you, your vote has been counted”.

“Voters who vote by mail are not able to use ballot checking technologies. They may make a simple mistake. There may be a stray ink mark. The ink may smear when it’s stuck in the envelope.“

A simple smear of ink can be enough to have a vote thrown out altogether.

NY doesn’t use lever machines anymore though. As Sean Hannity helpfully showed us all, I learned today we fill out a giant paper by hand in a “privacy booth” (that everyone waiting behind you in line for the scanner can see you do), and then we feed it into this electronic scanner thing like they use for scan-trons for the SATs after which it tells you, “Thank you, your vote has been counted”.

(via robot-heart-politics)

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