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Thu Sep-27-07 09:00 PM
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1. In most of WI, we have paper ballots and optical scanners.

To vote, you connect the arrows next to the candidates of your choice. It's pretty simple, and there's no weirdly aligned butterfly ballots or anything like that.

To write in, you write your candidate's name on the blank line provided for that purpose under each race, and connect the arrows next to it.

You then feed it into the scanner -- results are tallied electronically; write-ins obviously will be tallied by hand (although a count of the total write-ins for each race is available electronically as well).

Since we already have a paper trail, this would not bypass anything.

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