occurs in the wrong precinct!
The new machinery: scanner (top), and special-needs scanner (bottom)
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The system makes digital photos of each ballot in addition to storing
the paper ones, which are sent to the county seat in Doylestown for
final counting via larger scanners; USBs recording totals are also sent in by each
precinct. There's the Internet connection. It's always hiding somewhere
except with systems that use hand-counted paper ballots (HCPB) only. You
see, high-or low-tech, there's always Internet where the machinery is
manufactured. Alas.
"Bucks County is purple," Gail Humphrey told me, Chief Clerk of the county's
electoral systems who oversees the board of elections and answers to
the county commissioners, the trio who ushered in the far superior system.
Not only is Bucks purple; it's also considered a bellwether of presidential
election outcomes. Considering this, Humphrey and others here are
extremely upset by Act 77, recently passed by the state legislature,
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