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Dave Weigel RetweetedTrump allies have become fixated on "Sharpiegate," a controversy alleging that MAGA voters in Arizona were tricked into using Sharpies to have their votes invalidated. But elections officials say there's no problem reading or counting those ballots.
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mercuryblues
(14,522 posts)because trump uses them
lemmings. fuck.them.all.
LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)another one.
Ms. Toad
(33,992 posts)on the back.
As to the front there are two primary means of reading.
One scans the entire ballot and then snips the votes out of the entire image. The other scans the locations where bubbles are expected to be.
In both cases, the counting technology focuses on the center of the bubble and counts darkened pixels in the bubble image. Bleed from an adjacent bubble would not bleed far enough into the adjacent bubble to count - and if it did, the machine would register an overvote and the voter would be given the option to remark a clean ballot to correct the overvote.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,346 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Like the old man (some attribute it to Mark Twain) lamented, "I've had a great many troubles in his life, but the worst of them never happened."
Saboburns
(2,807 posts)Looks like our sharpie strategy paid off. I admit I was skeptical late last week standing in K-Mart with three armfuls of sharpies. But you fellas was right.
Atta boy, gang!
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)Leith
(7,808 posts)Read and follow instructions and you won't have problems, trumpanzees!
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Learn to read, you fucking MORANS.
You know, of course, republican states are tossing out or 'losing' Democratic mail-in votes, so fuck these damn crybabies.