What does the ballot paper look like 2020

If ballots counted by voting machines can be easily rigged and get compromised, should the U.S. go back to the more accurate and safer method of counting votes, paper ballots only? Yes, there should be a federal requirement that whatever process a state or local government uses, there must be a paper ballot for every vote.

However, following a debacle in ballot counting in the state of Florida in the 2020 election, a flaw with the way the paper could be left only half punched called “hanging chads” marked the end of the use of punch card ballots. Optically scanned ballots are now the dominant voting system.

If a ballot is ruined and no longer usable, the election commission should be notified immediately. Mail-in ballots must be sealed in the two provided envelopes, stamped and sent by mail to the election commission. Mail-in ballots must arrive at the office no later than Nov. 3 to be counted.

The first paper ballot came to some states by the 1840s but not all. They weren’t anything like the paper ballots we have now. They were pamphlets printed by the parties themselves, so you submitted only the ticket for the party you supported. Mail-in absentee ballots were first used in the civil war for soldiers to cast votes while fighting.