California has a challenge from Georgia in the race for the bottom in >counting ballots!
My state, for once, is not in on the challenge. Chicago and suburban
Cook County do use touch-screen ballot-marking devices, but the voter
gets a paper ballot to review that's literally printed out. It then gets
fed into a scanner and dropped into the ballot box for the initial
count. If there is a recount, there are physical ballots to review.
In Georgia, they allow voting machines with a touch screen that create a
QR code. There is no physical ballot to review. The QR code gets fed
into the scanner.
I really don't understand where the "ballot". On a LAN within the
polling site?
After Trump's false accusations in 2020, the state legislature banned
these devices by July 1, 2026, and then failed to authorize a
replacement system. They've got a special election coming up for a >Congressional district and no authorized system.
The Secretary of State proposed a regulation that after scanning the QR
code, the image of the ballot represented by the QR code (or I suspect
the serial number that the QR code itself represents) will be uploaded.
The image will then be OCR'd and considered to be the "original" ballot,
even though it is multiple steps removed from what the voter marked.
Is this idiotic or what? For whatever reason, southern states keep
buying voting machines that don't make a paper record.
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-ballots-qr-codes-legislature-special-session-7197f763b090285a5fc2f471aa374505
California has a challenge from Georgia in the race for the bottom in >counting ballots!
My state, for once, is not in on the challenge. Chicago and suburban
Cook County do use touch-screen ballot-marking devices, but the voter
gets a paper ballot to review that's literally printed out. It then gets
fed into a scanner and dropped into the ballot box for the initial
count. If there is a recount, there are physical ballots to review.
In Georgia, they allow voting machines with a touch screen that create a
QR code. There is no physical ballot to review. The QR code gets fed
into the scanner.
I really don't understand where the "ballot". On a LAN within the
polling site?
After Trump's false accusations in 2020, the state legislature banned
these devices by July 1, 2026, and then failed to authorize a
replacement system. They've got a special election coming up for a >Congressional district and no authorized system.
The Secretary of State proposed a regulation that after scanning the QR
code, the image of the ballot represented by the QR code (or I suspect
the serial number that the QR code itself represents) will be uploaded.
The image will then be OCR'd and considered to be the "original" ballot,
even though it is multiple steps removed from what the voter marked.
Is this idiotic or what? For whatever reason, southern states keep
buying voting machines that don't make a paper record.
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-ballots-qr-codes-legislature-special-session-7197f763b090285a5fc2f471aa374505
On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:10:27 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
California has a challenge from Georgia in the race for the bottom in
counting ballots!
We're #1!
We're #1!
My state, for once, is not in on the challenge. Chicago and suburban
Cook County do use touch-screen ballot-marking devices, but the voter
gets a paper ballot to review that's literally printed out. It then gets
fed into a scanner and dropped into the ballot box for the initial
count. If there is a recount, there are physical ballots to review.
In Georgia, they allow voting machines with a touch screen that create a
QR code. There is no physical ballot to review. The QR code gets fed
into the scanner.
I really don't understand where the "ballot". On a LAN within the
polling site?
I don't know either. I've avoided voting in person in the last few
elections.
After Trump's false accusations in 2020, the state legislature banned
these devices by July 1, 2026, and then failed to authorize a
replacement system. They've got a special election coming up for a
Congressional district and no authorized system.
Why would we need a replacement? Oh we need one to vote with? We'll
just cook something up over the weekend.
The Secretary of State proposed a regulation that after scanning the QR
code, the image of the ballot represented by the QR code (or I suspect
the serial number that the QR code itself represents) will be uploaded.
The image will then be OCR'd and considered to be the "original" ballot,
even though it is multiple steps removed from what the voter marked.
This sounds... I'm not sure what it sounds like but 'stupid' works.
It's some sort of rube Goldberg solution that someone might come up
with during a drunken weekend.
Is this idiotic or what? For whatever reason, southern states keep
buying voting machines that don't make a paper record.
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-ballots-qr-codes-legislature-special-session-7197f763b090285a5fc2f471aa374505
Who needs a record that could be checked and then challenged.
shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:10:27 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
California has a challenge from Georgia in the race for the bottom in
counting ballots!
We're #1!
We're #1!
My state, for once, is not in on the challenge. Chicago and suburban
Cook County do use touch-screen ballot-marking devices, but the voter
gets a paper ballot to review that's literally printed out. It then gets >>> fed into a scanner and dropped into the ballot box for the initial
count. If there is a recount, there are physical ballots to review.
In Georgia, they allow voting machines with a touch screen that create a >>> QR code. There is no physical ballot to review. The QR code gets fed
into the scanner.
I really don't understand where the "ballot". On a LAN within the
polling site?
I don't know either. I've avoided voting in person in the last few
elections.
After Trump's false accusations in 2020, the state legislature banned
these devices by July 1, 2026, and then failed to authorize a
replacement system. They've got a special election coming up for a
Congressional district and no authorized system.
Why would we need a replacement? Oh we need one to vote with? We'll
just cook something up over the weekend.
The Secretary of State proposed a regulation that after scanning the QR
code, the image of the ballot represented by the QR code (or I suspect
the serial number that the QR code itself represents) will be uploaded.
The image will then be OCR'd and considered to be the "original" ballot, >>> even though it is multiple steps removed from what the voter marked.
This sounds... I'm not sure what it sounds like but 'stupid' works.
It's some sort of rube Goldberg solution that someone might come up
with during a drunken weekend.
Is this idiotic or what? For whatever reason, southern states keep
buying voting machines that don't make a paper record.
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-ballots-qr-codes-legislature-special-session-7197f763b090285a5fc2f471aa374505
Who needs a record that could be checked and then challenged.
In Arizona, they just have the mailman keep the ballots away from us and
then take them out in the desert and have a bonfire. It?s a lot cleaner >system.
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