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Voting in elections

How are votes counted and kept? Different types of machines in different

states Machines have changed over time

What’s important when people vote? Make sure your vote is counted: accuracy Your vote is your own: secrecy Everyone eligible to vote can vote

Machines should be reliable and maintainable

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Voting from an historical perspective

Who wants chocolate, who wants vanilla?

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How are votes counted or tabulated?

Ancient Greece, vote to ostracize someone using ostrakon Secret, scratch name on piece of pottery

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Ballot stores vote, Italian for ball?

Voting in social clubs, not in government elections

http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/patchwork.html

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Voting viva voce, 1846, Missouri

http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/pictures/

Judge:administers oath to voter

Clerks: record called-out vote

Candidate: asking for vote!

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Early ballot, South Carolina

Viva voce leads to Coercion Bribery Intimidation Retaliation

1876, Rutheford B. Hayes Majority electoral votes Minority popular vote New methods investigated

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Australian ballot: similar to today

Straight party How to do this?

Individual votes Box or circle?

What is a “mark” Check? Color in?

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Disadvantages of paper ballots?

Why do we need machines to help us vote?

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Lever voting machine

1890-2008 Hard to maintain Hard to change

ballot Still used in New

York My first NC vote:

1980

How hard is this to use?

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What if it’s hard to vote?

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Voting video from 1974http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuWRj1db-wE

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Different ballots and machines: NY

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Different ballots and machines: OR

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Optical Scan Ballots

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DRE machines can fail

Nov 5, 2008 Machines impounded Straight party ticket

Touch every candidate Cumbersome? Takes time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk85lbN5BXs

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What does ‘be prepared’ mean?

http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/is_america_ready_to_vote#best