Reply #17: If you're compiling a database, I can give you some Okla info: [View All]

[karlrschneider]

I -think- we are the only state that uses the exact system in every precinct in the state...the "Optek" scanning counting machines (I THINK they're made by ES&S) but if I'm wrong about that, I at least do know
there is most assuredly a 'paper trail'...although not sure how long, or where, or how they are stored and maintained. I need to find this out.
And I have no illusions that there was any mass fraud, knowing the proclivities of OK voters, but I do have some reservations about the Senate race.

There are, on our ballots, an available choice for "straight party voting" which is normally at the top of whatever columns define a particular race but I never use them...I always choose each race independently (but usually all DEM),* and it occured to me to wonder last month what would happen if someone had picked 'straight' and then went on to select sub-choices. I should have asked...but I will.

Not that Kerry had a snowball's chance here, but I am going to look into some of these questions.

* It can be confusing because there are other sections on the ballot that are not partisan, such as State Questions (e.g. the "marriage amendment") and "retention of Judges" which wouldn't or shouldn't be affected either way by 'straight party voting'...