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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

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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. 
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