Both companies continue to develop new equipment and markets. All three vendors supply optical scanning and touch-screen voting equipment. Compatibility of Optical Scanning Equipment Electronic DREs are highly compatible with IRV, while punch card, push-button DREs such as the AVC Advantage and the Shouptronic 1242, and lever machines are highly incompatible. This section addresses the compatibility of the optical scanning systems that are becoming increasingly popular. Global Global markets the only computerized voting equipment currently used in the United States for public, ranked ballot elections.
Voters fill in bubbles to indicate their votes.
The ballot resembles the computer forms often used on standardized tests. In the same election, Cambridge combines plurality elections with a ranked ballot election, and voters fill out one ballot with the plurality elections on it and another with the ranked ballot election. You may fill in as many choices as you please. Fill in no more than one oval per candidate. Fill in no more than one oval per column.