Has Los Angeles County just reinvented voting?
— machines that are no longer manufactured — in one or more jurisdictions. Another seven states use voting machines that have been discontinued in all their jurisdictions.
The new L.A. voting system combines a paper ballot with a touch screen. Inside the voting booth, a voter makes his or her choices on the screen. The voter then reviews the choices, feeds a paper ballot into the machine, and presses an on-screen button to complete the vote.The paper ballot then drops into a secure box, becoming the paper backup for the votes that are recorded on the machine — a safeguard against hacking.
Logan concedes that"a lot" of voters will still show up on Tuesday because that's what's ingrained, and some will show up at their old familiar polling places only to find they have disappeared. , said she has been to L.A. for a tour of the new system."I really do believe that they have done something that’s transformational in terms of how we see elections today," she said., said the system addresses the frustration he hears from local election officials about the limited options in the voting machine market. Said Norden,"I think everybody around the country that works in the election space is watching L.A. County and looking to see how this rolls out.
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