wtf - voting records?

[DrPizza]

Voted today. Paper ballots now. After I signed my name, they handed me the paper ballot & wrote the unique number on my ballot next to my name. Is the question of who you voted for no longer private? The ballot was scanned into a machine. I'd have to be really naive to believe that no one would ever want to know who voted for who. There is now an electronic record of exactly who I voted for, linked to my name.

Any one else have this concern??

 

[DrPizza]

Something else I also noted: Jimmy McMillan's political party was spelled wrong. It's the "Rent is too damn high" party, not the "Rent is 2 dam high" party.

 

[bamacre]

Something else I also noted: Jimmy McMillan's political party was spelled wrong. It's the "Rent is too damn high" party, not the "Rent is 2 dam high" party.

 

[herm0016]

the machines just match up a grid to the black marks, they do not take a " picture" of the ballot. ( step mom used to work for a company that printed ballots)

here the numbers are just there to make sure, in the event of a recount, that there are the same number of ballots that they started with.

 

[Thump553]

I hope Jimmy outpolls Crazy Carl.

 

[DrPizza]

Doesn't matter what the machine does. Someone has my paper ballot. And, someone has my name with the number on my ballot.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

That happened here too. Maybe this is an overreaction to all the complaints of not being able to verify a voter's ballot was counted correctly via electronic machines?

Ala Florida in 2000... a way to come back and ask the specific voter if they really meant to leave that chad dimpled or that box partially filled?

 

[nickbits]

Here you rip Off the tab with the number on it before you feed it into the machine so the connection is lost.

 

[jman19]

Something else I also noted: Jimmy McMillan's political party was spelled wrong. It's the "Rent is too damn high" party, not the "Rent is 2 dam high" party.

Actually I think the "2" is correct or at least is accepted by the party itself.

 

[cKGunslinger]

I live in B.F.E., TX and even we have touch screen voting machines.