Youngkin mandates all paper ballots for presidential elections in Virginia

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Anonymous wrote:I"m an election worker (technically called an "election judge") in Maryland. We use paper ballots. You fill inthe circles in a voting booth -- no punching holes, no hanging chads.

Then you take it to a scanner. It will reject your ballot if you made a mistake (like voting for two choices for an office that allows only one choice) so you know right away if it's OK or not.

The paper ballots are kept as backup. The scanner machine results are sent electronically (and have a USB stick backup) to the head office. We drive the paper ballots to the head office after polls close, in one of our cars, but there has to be another judge from a different party sitting in the car also. I guess we better hope we're not carjacked.

The electronic touch-screen voting machines we have in every polling place are primarily for those with accessibliity issues, like they are hearing or vision impaired and can't fill a paper ballot. It produces a paper ballot result for them. We prefer people use the paper ballots (pen-marking your own ballot) because it's faster and we have more of those stations at the polling place.

I’m an election officer in Fairfax county and our process is very much like what is described above. We have a machine called an Express Vote that marks the ballot for the voter using a touchscreen or keypad. A card is then printed out and is inserted into the scanner just as all the other paper ballots are.

I’ve been an officer for eight years and, as far as I know, Fairfax county doesn’t offer electronic voting as an option. There is always a paper ballot and those are kept in storage by the county for a number of years after each election.

Why did they do away with the machines the showed who you voted for and asked if that was correct? One could easily program a machine to flip a vote

I’ve been voting in Virginia for more than 30 years, but I don’t remember the machine you’re describing. Is there a link to a picture maybe?

The DS 200, which is the ballot scanning machine used in Fairfax county, just counts the votes on the ballots as they are scanned. The information is saved on two thumb drives, and the actual paper ballots are also saved in sealed boxes which all the election officers present sign. So it is entirely possible to hand count the paper ballots to back up the numbers the machine’s printout and thumb drives show, if that were ever necessary.

What do you not understand Youngkin is lying

And he’s trying to slow roll the voting to cause chaos they want the race to go to the house and install king dictator trump

Youngkin will get worse as we get closer

They are planning military force as well yep they are Mike Flynn and youngkin are buds


Vote early people and vote like it’s your last vote because republicans have over 80 lawsuits in swing states only to stop you from voting only one party doesn’t want you to vote why?… ask yourself why only in swing states ? Why in red states in liberal districts only?

Republicans unamerican

[Anonymous]

VA has had all paper ballots for over 7 years. In fact, nearly every state, incl all battlegrounds, have all paper ballots. As in 2020, 95+% of all voters will vote on paper in 2024. In VA, it’s 100% since 2017, incl 2021 when Youngkin was elected on all paper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When you arrive at a voting site you get to choose between a paper ballot and entering your choices on a computer. So now the computers are obsolete and unnecessary in Virginia? This slows the process and discourages voting in general, because waiting in line is a deterrent. But maybe that’s the objective. Dumb.

Pledge to be a Day One voter! Don’t wait till the last day of voting. It frees up us volunteers to call people who need that extra nudge, AND takes you off the call lists.

Early voting is the way!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I"m an election worker (technically called an "election judge") in Maryland. We use paper ballots. You fill inthe circles in a voting booth -- no punching holes, no hanging chads.

Then you take it to a scanner. It will reject your ballot if you made a mistake (like voting for two choices for an office that allows only one choice) so you know right away if it's OK or not.

The paper ballots are kept as backup. The scanner machine results are sent electronically (and have a USB stick backup) to the head office. We drive the paper ballots to the head office after polls close, in one of our cars, but there has to be another judge from a different party sitting in the car also. I guess we better hope we're not carjacked.

The electronic touch-screen voting machines we have in every polling place are primarily for those with accessibliity issues, like they are hearing or vision impaired and can't fill a paper ballot. It produces a paper ballot result for them. We prefer people use the paper ballots (pen-marking your own ballot) because it's faster and we have more of those stations at the polling place.

I’m an election officer in Fairfax county and our process is very much like what is described above. We have a machine called an Express Vote that marks the ballot for the voter using a touchscreen or keypad. A card is then printed out and is inserted into the scanner just as all the other paper ballots are.

I’ve been an officer for eight years and, as far as I know, Fairfax county doesn’t offer electronic voting as an option. There is always a paper ballot and those are kept in storage by the county for a number of years after each election.

Why did they do away with the machines the showed who you voted for and asked if that was correct? One could easily program a machine to flip a vote

I’ve been voting in Virginia for more than 30 years, but I don’t remember the machine you’re describing. Is there a link to a picture maybe?

The DS 200, which is the ballot scanning machine used in Fairfax county, just counts the votes on the ballots as they are scanned. The information is saved on two thumb drives, and the actual paper ballots are also saved in sealed boxes which all the election officers present sign. So it is entirely possible to hand count the paper ballots to back up the numbers the machine’s printout and thumb drives show, if that were ever necessary.

What do you not understand Youngkin is lying

And he’s trying to slow roll the voting to cause chaos they want the race to go to the house and install king dictator trump

Youngkin will get worse as we get closer

They are planning military force as well yep they are Mike Flynn and youngkin are buds


Vote early people and vote like it’s your last vote because republicans have over 80 lawsuits in swing states only to stop you from voting only one party doesn’t want you to vote why?… ask yourself why only in swing states ? Why in red states in liberal districts only?

Republicans unamerican

What does any of this have to do with paper ballots as opposed to “the machines the showed who you voted for and asked if that was correct”? We’ve had all paper ballots in Virginia for years and will continue to do so.

Are you saying Youngkin will somehow change the system before November so we won’t have paper ballots?

I think that would be very difficult, if not impossible, to do in less than three months.