re: #143 PhillyPretzel

What we have in Philly is a machine that allows the voter to press the name of the candidate and the light goes from blinking to solid to indicate to the voter that their vote has been recorded. It is finalized by pressing the large green button at the bottom of the machine. At the end of day, 8:00 pm, the machines are taken off the voting function and are put into tally mode and within 10 to 15 minutes we have the results on a very long strip of paper. There are 6 copies and results are given to the minority inspector (yours truly) and to the police so they can run the results to Voting HQ.

In NYC, we have a paper ballot that you fill in the bubbles, then the ballot is fed into an optical scan reader that does the counting. And paper copy is collected and saved in case of audit and/or recount.