Hi Margit and Everyone,Would early voting be a better approach than seeking more investment in machines, especially DREs?
However, I did just hear of a situation in Indiana's spring primary in which the voters who appeared to vote when the polls opened in one precinct were given paper ballots to mark but could not cast them because the scanner did not work. The second scanner was delivered, and the poll workers could not get it to work either. Finally the voters left without casting their ballots.
For line-phobic people, early voting on paper ballots at the clerk's office or satellite office, where people presumably know how to operate the machinery, seems the best bet to me.
Mary (303) 442-2164 Margit Johansson wrote:
Hi All,I've just been reading something about the interaction of voters with machines in 2004 in one state. With a long ballot, some people with limited English skills, and machines cancelling people's votes when they took too long, some people took an hour on a machine. Part of the solution to lines is to have enough machines. Another would be to have people prepared for how they were going to vote ahead of time. Could we get the clerks to do tests before the election, using people who were and were not prepared, people whose English was poor, etc?MargitMargit Johansson303-442-1668/ margitjo@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:margitjo@xxxxxxxxx>