Quote Originally Posted by Lowell View Post
Split tickets can take a lot of time in a hand count. An optical scanner makes sense but there needs to be a procedure for regular random sampling [like hand counting say 50 random ballots then scanning them] to insure the optical scanner is tallying correctly. And in no way should it be networked.
I believe they run a battery of tests before the election to make sure the machines are functioning. And I know they are not networked.