Digital Pen Voting vs. Optical Scan Voting
| FEATURES | Digital Pen Voting | Optical Scan Voting |
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| Paper Based |  |
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| Hand Countable | |
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| Uses Plain Paper | |
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| Flexible Ballot Design | |
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| Provides OverVote Protection | |
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| Shows how marks were interpreted. | |
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| Allow showing image of ballot before casting vote. | |
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| Lost Cost per voting location | |
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| Print on Demand In-House | |
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| Vote cast in private in booth | |
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| Clean ballot without timing marks | |
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