I used a Sharpie in Norcal and my ballot was read by the machine correctly.
37 bubbles filled in, and 37 bubbles read.
I saw it happen with my own eyes, I put my ballot into the machine myself.
The Sharpie thing is really fucking with my brain right now.
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.