What part of the voting process is vulnerable to abuse?
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What part of the voting process is vulnerable to abuse?
Thea Brodkin (Voter Service Chair) gives expert video advice on: What should I look for when filling out a ballot?; What should I look for when using a touch-screen voting machine?; How can I ensure that my provisional ballot is counted? and more...
I don't think It's vulnerable at all, I think it's very secure. As long as you look at your ballot and you make sure it was voted correctly before you put it in the ballot box you have a chance of second chance voting here in California. The machine can check your ballots to see if you made over votes and blank ballots and stuff like that. I think there very secure and once that ballot goes in that ballot box we have all kinds of provisions that that's delivered safely. Those ballots are put in sealed boxes, in fireproof bags, put in police cars to take to headquarters on election night. We have helicopters delivering them on election night in those sealed bags. Having worked for the register of voters on Election Day… this is an interesting story one time we had all the ballots in but we couldn't find one precinct. So they couldn't close it was like three in the morning and what they did was they kept calling the inspectors house and there was no answer they couldn't reach her. They sent police to her house and she had died after the polls closed and before the ballots were delivered they found the ballots in her care and they were delivered, but those are very rare instances. They know exactly how many ballots have to come back and where they're coming from and they do not close until every precinct is heard from.