During the Olympic vote they used the same sheets as at the advanced polls but instead of dropping them into a ballot box you walked over and fed it into a scanner. This seems like a no brainer to me, if there is any discrepancy or possible fraud you still have the paper ballots to go back to if needed. The only downside is that they use a full sheet of paper for every ballot when a 1/4 page would have worked. If they had done this the advanced voting results would be available immediately after the polls closed and before they even did any manual counting. As long as there is the paper backup they shouldn't even be doing manual counts anymore unless the ballot is marked improperly and the machine can't understand it.
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