The Florida Ballots Survey Florida Ballots Images Datavote ballots are cards upon which voters make selections by pressing a lever that punches out the chads mechanically. Optical scan ballots are the most widely used type of ballot in Florida. These ballots require that voters fill in the oval or complete the arrow that corresponds to their candidate or issue. The ballots are then fed into an optical scanner that reads and tallies the selections electronically.
Votomatic ballots are a widely used type of ballot in Florida.
They examine ballots and code them on specially-designed triplicate coding forms. The NORC coders are not allowed to confer on their coding of the ballots. The National Opinion Research Center. All rights reserved.