In some Texas counties for years we have been using the optical scanner system. You actually scanned in your completed ballot into the computer yourself. Not completely fraudproof, but pretty close. Ones that were messed up, or double marked, marked outside the circle, etc were scanned into a seperate tray inside the sealed, computer. They "disputed ballots" were hand counted by the elections supervisors that night. When I moved to the metro area they were still using the old machienes with the curtain and levers. They were REALLY old and were getting too expensive to store and transport, so they finally went to the optical system here. Way quicker, easier and more accurate.
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