Agreeing that voters shouldn't have to pry stubborn chads off the back of their ballots to have their votes count will be the easy part. The Detroit News. Used by 1,443 precincts.
Voters use a stylus to punch out a round or rectangular chad on a ballot.
Voters pull levers to indicate which candidate they choose on these large, heavy mechanical or electronic machines. Used by 97 precincts. Voters, who are identified with a card given when checking in at the polling location, touch the screen of a free-standing computer, similar to an automatic teller machine, to indicate their choices. Machines are designed to immediately tell a voter if they have made a mistake. Votes are recorded on the machine's internal hard drive, not by a network, to prevent fraud.