Comments on: New York State To Choose Between Two Types of Optical Scan Vote-Counting Machines http://www.ballot-access.org/2009/12/24/new-york-state-to-choose-between-two-types-of-optical-scan-vote-counting-machines/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:15:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3042 By: Jim Riley http://www.ballot-access.org/2009/12/24/new-york-state-to-choose-between-two-types-of-optical-scan-vote-counting-machines/comment-page-1/#comment-782489 Jim Riley Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:52:17 +0000 http://www.ballot-access.org/?p=9670#comment-782489 The story was about the New York <b>City</b> Board of Elections, which must choose between two systems that were recently certified by use by NY State Board of Elections. Proposed systems by other vendors did not complete the certification process. Voters will mark their ballots by hand, and then insert them in to a scanner/counter which will check for errors (overvotes, etc) so that the voter may decide to make corrections before the ballot is accepted and counted. There are also vote marking devices, which provide for various types of interfaces such as touch screens, and that then mark a ballot. In some cases the marked ballot is then placed into the precinct scanner, and in others it is directly deposited into a ballot box. The paper trail is the the pre-printed ballot with the choices marked on it. The story was about the New York City Board of Elections, which must choose between two systems that were recently certified by use by NY State Board of Elections. Proposed systems by other vendors did not complete the certification process.

Voters will mark their ballots by hand, and then insert them in to a scanner/counter which will check for errors (overvotes, etc) so that the voter may decide to make corrections before the ballot is accepted and counted.

There are also vote marking devices, which provide for various types of interfaces such as touch screens, and that then mark a ballot. In some cases the marked ballot is then placed into the precinct scanner, and in others it is directly deposited into a ballot box.

The paper trail is the the pre-printed ballot with the choices marked on it.

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