Reply #7: I like them. [View All]

[Igel]

I was a poll worker in Rochester and we used them.

A bloody nuisance to move around, but reliable. Every number at the end of the day was read off and written down by teams, one person from each party on each team. A bit cramped with a lot of people in them, but that rarely happened (mostly a parent with underage kids, showing them how to vote).

The problem, as it was explained to me in 2004, was that nobody made them anymore: every year the county had fewer. The technicians scavenged those that had broken to keep the survivors up and running.

My favorite kind of voting. It leaves a mechanical record that can be verified later; with the two-ledger accounting system that we were encouraged (registration book + extra-legal listing of names), it was hard to beat.