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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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1 Voting Machines, 2008 10.1

2 Voting Machines, 2008 10.2 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

3 Voting Machines, 2008 10.3 Voting from an historical perspective Who wants chocolate, who wants vanilla?

4 Voting Machines, 2008 10.4 How are votes counted or tabulated? l Ancient Greece, vote to ostracize someone using ostrakon  Secret, scratch name on piece of pottery

5 Voting Machines, 2008 10.5 Ballot stores vote, Italian for ball? l Voting in social clubs, not in government elections http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/patchwork.html

6 Voting Machines, 2008 10.6 Voting viva voce, 1846, Missouri http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/pictures/ Judge: administers oath to voter Clerks: record called-out vote Candidate: asking for vote!

7 Voting Machines, 2008 10.7 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

8 Voting Machines, 2008 10.8 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?

9 Voting Machines, 2008 10.9 Disadvantages of paper ballots? Why do we need machines to help us vote?

10 Voting Machines, 2008 10.10 Lever voting machine l 1890-2008  Hard to maintain  Hard to change ballot  Still used in New York  My first NC vote: 1980 l How hard is this to use?

11 Voting Machines, 2008 10.11 What if it’s hard to vote?

12 Voting Machines, 2008 10.12 Voting video from 1974 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuWRj1db-wE

13 Voting Machines, 2008 10.13 Different ballots and machines: NY

14 Voting Machines, 2008 10.14 Different ballots and machines: OR

15 Voting Machines, 2008 10.15 Optical Scan Ballots

16 Voting Machines, 2008 10.16 DRE machines can fail l Nov 5, 2008  Machines impounded  Straight party ticket l Touch every candidate  Cumbersome?  Takes time? l http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk85lbN5BXs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk85lbN5BXs

17 Voting Machines, 2008 10.17 What does ‘be prepared’ mean? http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/is_america_ready_to_vote#best

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