Voting Machines, 2008 10.1. Voting Machines, 2008 10.2 Voting in elections l How are votes counted and kept?  Different types of machines in different.

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Voting Machines,

Voting Machines, Voting in elections l How are votes counted and kept?  Different types of machines in different states  Machines have changed over time l What’s important when people vote?  Make sure your vote is counted: accuracy  Your vote is your own: secrecy  Everyone eligible to vote can vote l Machines should be reliable and maintainable

Voting Machines, Voting from an historical perspective Who wants chocolate, who wants vanilla?

Voting Machines, How are votes counted or tabulated? l Ancient Greece, vote to ostracize someone using ostrakon  Secret, scratch name on piece of pottery

Voting Machines, Ballot stores vote, Italian for ball? l Voting in social clubs, not in government elections

Voting Machines, Voting viva voce, 1846, Missouri Judge: administers oath to voter Clerks: record called-out vote Candidate: asking for vote!

Voting Machines, Early ballot, South Carolina l Viva voce leads to  Coercion  Bribery  Intimidation  Retaliation  l 1876, Rutheford B. Hayes  Majority electoral votes  Minority popular vote  New methods investigated

Voting Machines, Australian ballot: similar to today l Straight party  How to do this? l Individual votes  Box or circle? l What is a “mark”  Check?  Color in?

Voting Machines, Disadvantages of paper ballots? Why do we need machines to help us vote?

Voting Machines, Lever voting machine l  Hard to maintain  Hard to change ballot  Still used in New York  My first NC vote: 1980 l How hard is this to use?

Voting Machines, What if it’s hard to vote?

Voting Machines, Voting video from

Voting Machines, Different ballots and machines: NY

Voting Machines, Different ballots and machines: OR

Voting Machines, Optical Scan Ballots

Voting Machines, DRE machines can fail l Nov 5, 2008  Machines impounded  Straight party ticket l Touch every candidate  Cumbersome?  Takes time? l

Voting Machines, What does ‘be prepared’ mean?