Letting the Voter Count

[tw]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I don't remember who produced the machines (not Diebold), but all election officials in Pennsylvania are elected, not appointed.

I don't remember voting for election officials when I lived in Montgomery County. Do every county (in and outside of PA) elect their voting officials?

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by tw

I don't remember voting for election officials when I lived in Montgomery County. Do every county (in and outside of PA) elect their voting officials?

Yes. There are three officials at every polling location: a judge of elections, a majority inspector and a minority inspector. Often there isn't enough interest in the job and the parties fail to run someone, and in that case the position is nominated. My ex won minority inspector in that way - when the Ds failed to run anyone, she asked a few people to write her in, and won with 5 votes.

This election happens in odd-numbered years which are the "less important" elections and so, less memorable and people often don't vote in them.

[xoxoxoBruce]

and the votes are written to a write once memory. A memory complete with security codes and the only place where the candidates names are provided to the machine. For example, a write once memory chip could then replace massive paper, contain code that traces that chip directly to a unique machine

Thanks, TW. I've read a bunch of articles on electronic voting, over the last 4 years and none of them put it all together.
Question - When the votes are written into a write once memory, is it every choice I make goes into a permanent field after the guy before me and before the guy after me? Or does a vote for Joe Blow get routed to Joe Blows field?
The reason I ask is because my poll (Delaware County, PA) keeps a record of names (signatures) and the booth used, in the order they vote. Hence, sequential data fields could be easily matched to the voter list.