On the election issues: Beyond the obvious methods of fraud, does voter confusion help anyone? One problem that has come up in my time working in voting precincts is issues where more than one precinct is located in the same room. When I’ve been there, I was able to encourage all inspectors to set up their precincts in a U shape so that their voters are less likely to use another precinct’s voting booths to vote their ballots. Even with precincts set up this way, keeping voters in their own precincts throughout the process can be like herding cats at times.
So why does this matter? Because each precinct’s ballot is different. In the interest of fairness, the order of candidates in a race will vary from precinct to precinct. Also, I have worked elections where the precincts in a location were even from different cities, meaning that the races might not even be the same. So if a voter manages to evade us and take their ballot into another precinct’s voting booth to mark it and then brings the ballot back to our ballot box, their votes may not actually be what they thought. Might this be being done on purpose?
I’m thinking perhaps at minimum all precincts housed in a single room should all have identical ballots so that it doesn’t matter if we failed to notice the voter who used the other precinct’s vote recorder.