What, exactly, constitutes “the ballot” in the Open Voting system?
In the Open Voting system, the ballot is a paper document that contains the voter’s choices. This paper is generated by a printer attached to an Open Voting ballot marking machine used by the voter to make his/her choices for each of the various contests that have been placed before the voter in the election. Many of these Open Voting ballot marking machines will use touch screen technology, as is found on Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and other kinds of voting machines. Some of these Open Voting ballot marking machines will be designed for use by voters with physical impairments. In all cases, each Open Voting ballot marking machine will contain a printer that produces the actual paper ballot that contains the voter’s choices. The voter will take the ballot from the Open Voting ballot marking machine’s printer. The voter may visually inspect the ballot and may also carry the ballot to a separate machine that will read-back the bar-code on the ballot. This read-back machine is prese
