Thanks,
@corbe . They have a valid case. A couple of complaints I have are:
1. No one can give you a straight answer on which way ballots are fed into the machine - face up or face down.
2. Why have the two-step process in the first place? The voter is issued a card with a chip. The voter places the card into the voting machine and makes selections. When done, the voter takes the card and goes to a second machine. The voter slides the card into that machine and hits the print button. A paper ballot comes out denoting all the votes that voter chose. The voter then takes the card and hands it to a poll worker. He/she take the paper ballot and slides it into a third machine (face up or face down) where the vote supposedly is recorded.
3. The poll worker can see who you voted for before directing you to the third machine. When my wife voted in 2020, she made several attempts at inserting her ballot face up. A poll worker approached her, glanced at her ballot, and then directed her to a machine that was sitting off by itself away from the other machines.
4. Beginning in 2022, all the poll workers wear 'Carter Center' t-shirts. In order to be a poll worker, one must be hired by the Carter Center in Atlanta.
5. It is possible to vote last minute absentee and still vote at the polling place since there is no accounting match between the two. Envelopes are separated from ballots upon arrival, so there is no way to determine where a ballot came from once it gets tossed in the bin. So double-voting is possible.