Mastodawn

RE: https://esq.social/@SuffolkLITLab/116229521620498862

The ProPublica piece is kind of a mess - it doesn't even mention CISA by name - but some of the issues are concerning. In particular, the proposals are extremely vague.

They want to ban "voting machines" (under what authority?). Does that mean touchscreen DREs? Fine, that's what virtually all technical experts have recommended for a while. Or do they mean any electronic tabulation, including optical scan paper ballots (widely used and amenable to reliable post-election audits)?

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don albertson

@mattblaze They need to define what they mean by a "voting machine". Our county uses hand-marked ballots which are read by an optical scanner. The scanner will reject ballots with stray marks (not in one of the valid selections) and warn voters of under or over voting. Over votes need to surrender the ballot and get a new one after the surrendered ballot is marked as void.