At least in my Minneapolis precinct, that's exactly how things are done.
We DO get paper ballots. However, that ballot is read by a machine that you feed your ballot into. Your only confirmation is that the ballot reader screen says either "Problem reading ballot (rare)" or "Ballot successfully read". You have zero idea if your ballot was read CORRECTLY.
Legitimate statement, though the question then becomes why the votes didn’t go
0, 93.5%, 99.7%, 100%
Instead of
0, 5%, 99.5%, 100%
Did they count the ones that needed to be manually reviewed first? How would they have known they needed manual review without running them through the system and knowing all the inerrant votes from scan failures?
If it was an automated ballot tallying machine, in one voting location, then it would be reasonably explained :)
At least in my Minneapolis precinct, that's exactly how things are done.
We DO get paper ballots. However, that ballot is read by a machine that you feed your ballot into. Your only confirmation is that the ballot reader screen says either "Problem reading ballot (rare)" or "Ballot successfully read". You have zero idea if your ballot was read CORRECTLY.
Legitimate statement, though the question then becomes why the votes didn’t go
0, 93.5%, 99.7%, 100%
Instead of
0, 5%, 99.5%, 100%
Did they count the ones that needed to be manually reviewed first? How would they have known they needed manual review without running them through the system and knowing all the inerrant votes from scan failures?
Good point! 👍