WASHINGTON, May 22 - U.S. President Donald Trump’s election-security czar last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S. states by asking whether the Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Thanks for explaining. Is there an obvious reason why to use machine rather that preprinted bulletin?
Assuming you mean a preprinted ballet which folks mark by hand; when the ballets with your selections are printed by a machine they will all be consistent and you have fewer issues with people leaving ambiguous marks on the ballet. It also makes the optical scanning used for tabulations more reliable.
Edit to add: there was a scandal here in the US during the 2000 presidential election that you may recall involving “hanging chads” in Florida. Some ballets were deemed ambiguous because the mechanical voting machines used at the time did not fully punch out the holes they were supposed on the ballet sheet.
This is so different from the voting I know.
In France, bulletins are preprinted. We go to close space with every bulletins available in there away from priying eyes put a bulletin in the enveloppe. The enveloppe is then openly put in a box with everyone in the room watching your vote being register to the box. When voting time finished they are open by hand. The presence of multiple people ensure we cannot cheat while reading the content of the enveloppe.
The companies that build the machines/software spend a lot of money on lobbying.
I wish I was kidding.