Our polling place in NY used felt-tipped pens. Optical scanners look for the darkness of a marked spot, as compared to an un-marked spot, so I don't see how it would matter if it was regular ink, sharpie, felt-tip marker, or pencil, as long as the darkness was dark enough for the optical scanner to detect it. Someone please explain if I am wrong here.
It requires an offset ballot for sharpie to work, otherwise it bleeds through and flags your ballot for adjudication. A lot of these polling places using sharpie were apparently not using offset ballots.
There was a video of a poll worker raging at someone for using their own ink pen instead of the provided sharpie which further fanned the flames of this thing.
Do some googling or duckducking, you can probably still find the video. Happened somewhere in Phoenix.
Ok, thanks. I read several articles where the "officials" discounted any concerns by saying sharpies were used because the ink dries faster and won't smear in the machines.
Our polling place in NY used felt-tipped pens. Optical scanners look for the darkness of a marked spot, as compared to an un-marked spot, so I don't see how it would matter if it was regular ink, sharpie, felt-tip marker, or pencil, as long as the darkness was dark enough for the optical scanner to detect it. Someone please explain if I am wrong here.
It requires an offset ballot for sharpie to work, otherwise it bleeds through and flags your ballot for adjudication. A lot of these polling places using sharpie were apparently not using offset ballots.
There was a video of a poll worker raging at someone for using their own ink pen instead of the provided sharpie which further fanned the flames of this thing.
Do some googling or duckducking, you can probably still find the video. Happened somewhere in Phoenix.
Ok, thanks. I read several articles where the "officials" discounted any concerns by saying sharpies were used because the ink dries faster and won't smear in the machines.