Punchcard ballots?? Not in Texas...

[Valhalla1]

at least not in my county/precinct. We had scantron cards for our ballots. seems like a better way to vote than punch cards, but who knows.

how about a poll on your precinct's ballot format

 

[Champion1]

yea i heard about that one!!!!
Reallllly

 

[Futuramatic]

Ours had a computer that scrolled a big piece of paper. 3 "pages" in total. Once the page finished loading, you hit the buton next to the names you want. This keeps peeps from punching 2 candidates (unless you are supposed to) and no paper crap. Just plug in the storage module and let it upload.

 

[Russ]

Until two years ago, we used the butterfly punch ballots just like those in question in Florida. Manufactured by the same company. Used them for nine years, never a complaint.

Two years ago, we switched to the optical scanning ballots. Dramatic increase in the speed of reporting results. But, plenty of them still get thrown out.

Russ, NCNE

 

[DefRef]

We used to have butterflys (us smart people know how to work them) but now use ScanTron style, darken-the-circle type ballots. I think that the nation should switch to these. No more "hanging chad" opportunities for Democratic mischief.

 

[The LIdless Eye]

We did have punch ballots in Plano, TX. (Near Dallas). They were not butterfly, tho. Just names down the left side. And LOTS of pages

 

[Viper GTS]

Punch ballots here in Oregon. Single page, ~4x7 or so, with around 200 holes. Each hole was 2x1mm or so, & you punched them with a pencil.

Viper GTS

 

[Tiger]

We used the scantron ballots here and have been for the last 5 years.
A new wrinkle this year was that the voter themselves ran the ballot through the reader which captured the ballot and stored it. We used to just slip it in a slot in a box, I assume to be counted later.