L.A. County Plans to Transition to Vote Centers

[TexasTowelie]

Voters in Los Angeles County will have up to 11 days to vote in the March 2020 presidential primary election, and the option to vote anywhere in the county at Vote Centers, on what looks like a touchscreen tablet.

Those changes are being discussed at community meetings across the county, from Inglewood to Glendale to Reseda, and will continue through Jan. 19.

Through a project called Voting Solutions for All People, or VSAP (vsap.lavote.net), the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk plans to create a new voting experience to make it easier for all voters, including voters with disabilities and multilingual voters.

Why the change?

“Part of the reason why is that voting equipment now is outdated — the voting system that is in place now is functional but, as time progresses and technology becomes available, we want to improve our voting system and be able to provide to voters options and more access to be able to vote,” says Mike Sanchez, public information officer.

Read more: https://www.laweekly.com/news/la-county-plans-to-transition-to-vote-centers-10102330

[msongs]

1. touch screens. why not just use cellphone opinion polls. much easier nt

[sandensea]

2. Exactly.

Touch screens are an open invitation to hackers to tamper with our election results - which is why the few European countries who've tried them have since dumped them (outside the U.S. they're popular only in third world semi-democracies).

Putin and Bibi certainly want us to adopt them nationwide, that's for sure.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Vote anywhere but with paper ballots.

That's how it's done in New Mexico. You vote in your own county, and the specific ballot you need is printed up on the spot. Mark it, feed it in the machine, it will kick out if you've double voted or in some other way invalidated your ballot. Excellent system.