Voter Security

[DailyBuck7]

I showed up in Ohio to vote today and there was good security and it was over in about 90 seconds. Showed up with my driver's license and they scanned it. While holding it they asked me my name and address with me not able to read or see the driver's license.. Then they asked me to sign to vote. They had an electronic record of me voting in the last election with my signature. They compared my signature in about 2 seconds. And, the process was over. No reason, this can't be done in about 95% of the voting and that where there are difficulties exceptions can be made which is in fact the way the Ohio law works.

 

[Moogy]

I showed up in Ohio to vote today and there was good security and it was over in about 90 seconds. Showed up with my driver's license and they scanned it. While holding it they asked me my name and address with me not able to read or see the driver's license.. Then they asked me to sign to vote. They had an electronic record of me voting in the last election with my signature. They compared my signature in about 2 seconds. And, the process was over. No reason, this can't be done in about 95% of the voting and that where there are difficulties exceptions can be made which is in fact the way the Ohio law works.

I showed up in Massachusetts to vote today, I walked in with security yapping to other folks, who may have been polling volunteers, paying no mind to me or anything else. I waited in the line specific to my precinct and, when it was my turn, I didn't show my driver's license, I just told them my name, and told them my address and they handed me some sticker type thingy I didn't even look at. The next person at the desk as for my sticker thingy, which I handed to her, and she gave me my ballot. I went to the partitioned standing tables to fill in my ballot, and, as someone watched me, fed that ballot into the electronic scanner when I was done, and walked out. The 10 illegals I brought with me did the same, and the process went smoothly for all. Viva la democracy!

 

[coldbud1994]

I showed up in Ohio to vote today and there was good security and it was over in about 90 seconds. Showed up with my driver's license and they scanned it. While holding it they asked me my name and address with me not able to read or see the driver's license.. Then they asked me to sign to vote. They had an electronic record of me voting in the last election with my signature. They compared my signature in about 2 seconds. And, the process was over. No reason, this can't be done in about 95% of the voting and that where there are difficulties exceptions can be made which is in fact the way the Ohio law works.

Same thing I did in SC

 

[FLaw47]

I had to use that garbage finger signature pad and I have no idea how you can compare signatures year over year with that. It's such a horrible form of verification.

 

[DailyBuck7]

Same thing I did in SC

Good to hear.

 

[DailyBuck7]

I had to use that garbage finger signature pad and I have no idea how you can compare signatures year over year with that. It's such a horrible form of verification.

If you have a pen with a rubber tip, your signature comes out much better. Which is what I had

 

[FLaw47]

If you have a pen with a rubber tip, your signature comes out much better. Which is what I had

I was not offered one. I don't think my signature stays very consistent over time, either. Seems to me to be a fantastically error prone method of verification.

 

[DailyBuck7]

I was not offered one. I don't think my signature stays very consistent over time, either. Seems to me to be a fantastically error prone method of verification.

I am sure where you were they didn't have it. It should be part of the procedure for everybody. A small not difficult improvement..

 

[Burgess Diesel]

Genuinely curious, are you saying you did all of your voting (check in, vote, cast the ballot) all in roughly 90 seconds? (I mean even 5 minutes is quick).

Reason I ask, in CO we are mailed our ballots that we can drop off at boxes. We also get a pretty large binder with information.
I had roughly 12 candidate races, another 8 judges or so, and then 15 or so measures that I had to vote on.
I was able to take about an hour and a half on Sunday to sit down and go through the candidates, and to better understand the measures (amendments and propositions)

Was there not as much for you to vote on in Ohio or did you just do a lot more homework ahead of time?

 

[DailyBuck7]

Genuinely curious, are you saying you did all of your voting (check in, vote, cast the ballot) all in roughly 90 seconds? (I mean even 5 minutes is quick).

Reason I ask, in CO we are mailed our ballots that we can drop off at boxes. We also get a pretty large binder with information.
I had roughly 12 candidate races, another 8 judges or so, and then 15 or so measures that I had to vote on.
I was able to take about an hour and a half on Sunday to sit down and go through the candidates, and to better understand the measures (amendments and propositions)

Was there not as much for you to vote on in Ohio or did you just do a lot more homework ahead of time?

I was only talking about the check-in. There were maybe 60 or 80 choices on the ballot between all sorts of races and judicial races. And several tax issues. I would guess it took me 5 minutes to fill that out. I filled out the 2 sheets and they were scanned in front of me in about 45 seconds. I should add that there were about 20 judicial races and in the county where I am in it is almost impossible for a republican judge to win. So they were really no decision for me I just voted straight Republican to make the results look less worse.

 

[Burgess Diesel]

I was only talking about the check-in. There were maybe 60 or 80 choices on the ballot between all sorts of races and judicial races. And several tax issues. I would guess it took me 5 minutes to fill that out. I filled out the 2 sheets and they were scanned in front of me in about 45 seconds. I should add that there were about 20 judicial races and in the county where I am in it is almost impossible for a republican judge to win. So they were really no decision for me I just voted straight Republican to make the results look less worse.

Oh gotcha, thanks. The county I'm in is pretty purple, so I likely put in a little more effort than I really needed to.

 

[DailyBuck7]

Genuinely curious, are you saying you did all of your voting (check in, vote, cast the ballot) all in roughly 90 seconds? (I mean even 5 minutes is quick).

Reason I ask, in CO we are mailed our ballots that we can drop off at boxes. We also get a pretty large binder with information.
I had roughly 12 candidate races, another 8 judges or so, and then 15 or so measures that I had to vote on.
I was able to take about an hour and a half on Sunday to sit down and go through the candidates, and to better understand the measures (amendments and propositions)

Was there not as much for you to vote on in Ohio or did you just do a lot more homework ahead of time?

I would add that 15 measures is a lot to read through. As a lawyer, I could focus on the two to four paragraphs that would be relevant. Lay people would try to read the whole thing which would be virtually impossible to understand because of the legalese.

We did have one statewide measure in Ohio which I am pretty confident we'll pass overwhelmingly, which is a constitutional amendment requiring photo ID to vote. My YouTube feed has been overflowing with political ads, but there was not one ad for this issue, which means to me that virtually everyone thinks it is a foregone conclusion.

 

[Burgess Diesel]

I would add that 15 measures is a lot to read through. As a lawyer, I could focus on the two to four paragraphs that would be relevant. Lay people would try to read the whole thing which would be virtually impossible to understand because of the legalese.

We did have one statewide measure in Ohio which I am pretty confident we'll pass overwhelmingly, which is a constitutional amendment requiring photo ID to vote. My YouTube feed has been overflowing with political ads, but there was not one ad for this issue, which means to me that virtually everyone thinks it is a foregone conclusion.

Yea I won't lie that I used Gemini in many situations to better summarize what these measures were all about.
A few were quick and easy, but others I spent a bit more time on.