Aah XD Well we had a small problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_US_election) a few years back with paper ballots -- everything this year was touch-screen voting, so results from the states that close their polls at 6 will be out probably almost instantly :)
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.
heheh ^___^;;; iirc, in HK you get a piece of paper and a stamp and you need to stamp this circle next to the person you vote for. then people go count them manually :P it's a really different system since we can't vote for the CE >__>
I'm from Texas and they're pretty hardcore about the voting. I didn't get to go to the polls for the election, but I went for the primary. I had to send in an absentee ballot because I'm in Boston for school right now. Everyone's nuts for the election here as much as in Texas! It's exciting.
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