ES&S Model 100 Precinct Ballot Counter with AutoMark Voter Assist Terminal

ES&S Model 100 Precinct Ballot Counter with AutoMark Voter Assist Terminal

Model 100 Precinct Ballot Counter with AutoMark Voter Assist Terminal
Optical Scan with Ballot Marker

This is an optical scanner voting machine that comes with an automated ballot marker, these are separate machines that would be purchased together. The optical scanner scans and counts paper ballots. The marking machines allows paper ballots to be filled out using audio voting, or sip and puff technology.

Pros:
• Full face ballot
• Voters mark their own vote
• Two paper trails (receipt, and the ballots)
• Ballot is automatically returned if voter marks lines for too many candidates
• Stores cast ballots in random order

Cons:
• Two step voting processes (filling in ballot, scanning ballot)
• Machine jams as easy as any photo coping machine
• Poll watcher, views voters as they insert there ballot (you can hide your ballot in an manila envelope if you ask for one)
• Poll watcher will see your ballot in the event of a paper jam
• Recount may have trouble telling voter intent if a voter marked more than one candidate
• If voter makes a mistake or changes there mind they must throw out old ballot and start again - old ballot is kept by poll watcher
• 8-1/2" x 11" full face ballot (very small print)
• Cost of the paper ballots (approximately 70 cents per ballot)(though salesman thinks it could drop to 30 cents a piece)
• Huge cost if there is a last minute change to the ballot or if a mistake is made
• Receipt very hard to read (small print, bad location, heat sensitive)