What is the Open Voting system?
The Open Voting system is very much like a traditional system in which the voter enters the voting place, marks his or her choices onto a paper ballot, and inserts the ballot into a ballot box except the voter marks the ballot using a computerized voting station rather than a pencil or colored marker. The Open Voting system preserves the paper ballot. However, which is printed in plain text that the voter can read. Voters have the opportunity to inspect the ballot to ensure that it properly reflects their choices. Poll workers then scan the ballot to count your votes and deposit it into a secure ballot box. The Open Voting system ballots contain a bar code in addition to the plain text. This bar code provides a system of accountability for recounts and prevents voters from voting more than once, although it provides confidentiality for the voter. Open Voting systems can be engineered to accommodate the special needs of those who who have physical impairments and can be operated with to
