their info has to match whats in the pollbooks

or they cannot vote

they have to update their info

Ultimately, it's just hard to prevent fraud.

I had a Union election. The Union made sure to check and double check every single person with ID. Photo ID and designated polling place.

doesnt help that electric ballots arent safe

Are paper ballots safe?

we use paper and a scanner which is more secure

What security measures are in place for those?

Which primary was this, may I ask?

basically fill out the ballot with your marks then put it in a scanner that counts the votes based on the scan

I really don't see how that's different from any other digital method

asking me to dox myself lel

?

I was curious what state and party mostly.

Since states have different procedures and parties treat things differently in each state.

im messing

Virginia

it was two party primary

scanner drops ballots into a cabinet and at the end of the voting period, we collect the paper

scanner then prints multiple receipts recording the votes

So really it's more of an automated vote counter.

and to my knowledge there is no known way to hack these scanners compared to the electric booths

yea

it detects errors too

like when people mark the ballot wrong it doesnt count it

yeah if ppl incorrectly fill out the ballot lol

liek how do you do that outside of doing it purposefully as a protest vote

People are going to incorrectly fill out anything tho

iirc if it goes unfilled it doesnt count those either

usually they clearly state, fill out the fuckign dot , dont check it, dont X it just shade it in

yea

they have instructions

people still fuck it up

we had 2 people invalidate their votes i think

due to marking mistakes

and once you fuck up thats it iirc

no second try

although dont quote me i dont remember exactly

yeah i helped with a municipal election here and we used a similar system

Regarding the ID thing, I def see its merits, especially from experience as a poll worker but I also think that if only citizens can register to vote in the first place then what's the point, outside of ID theft

The assumption that "lefties" make about minorities regarding them does kinda irk me though