You turn in paper ballots, but the machine reads the markings left by your pencil, which is why they ask you use pencil. Just like how teachers put the scantrons from your exams into a machine and it prints your scores out on them. So even if the ballots are on paper, a machine reads them. At least I assume that's how because in the primaries when I turned in my ballot, it got sucked into a machine.
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Date: 2008-11-04 11:04 pm (UTC)