Yikes – I was using a similar marker this morning:
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From: <redacted>
To: “Skip@granitegrok.com” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
Sent: 11/8/2022 11:09:16 AM
Subject: Ballot bleed through – ExeterGood morning Skip and Team,
Thank you all for always supplying useful info.
Voted this morning in Exeter @ (9:00) and found the sharpie supplied had bled through my ballot fairly heavy. Spoke with a poll agent and was reassured that this would not affect my ballot.
Took pics of both sides of the ballot and submitted it.
Thought I would forward the info,
Thank You,
<redacted>
Hope that the poll official was right – and most likely is. However, we’ll pay a bit of attention to Exeter…just in case. After all, all these machine are optically based – looking for those black marks in a given location. Remember the Windham Incident where a mere fold mark threw off the “observation” of the optical reader and changed the vote counts (compared to a hand count)?
Miss the old pencils, though…
And don’t worry about the FBI bit above…much, anyways. At least not in this area.
