Reply #7: You know what? [View All]

[George_S]

After looking over that, it's possible they put the op-scan machine in the lower density populations so everyone there could vote.

The voter use per machine time must be far less for the op-scan machines than it would be for the touch screens since they don't have to have access to the machine while they fill in the bubbles.

For example, if each vote takes 1 second of machine time for op-scan, and each touch screen vote took (at the least!) 1 minute of machine time, that would mean the op-scan machine could tally 60 times to voting power.

In other words, place the touch screen machines in the more populated areas to help discourage the votes. You would have to have 60 times the machines in the densely populated areas to equal the voting efficiency.

I've been wondering why the machines were distributed like they were, and that could explain it.

Is there an equal protection case here?

EDIT to add "touch screen vote"