How US Voting Machines Became Safer Than Ever

On the app, the marked ovals for each race and ballot initiative are arranged in a grid, like a police index of fingerprints, in order of confidence level. The vast majority of ovals tend to be properly filled and are easy for the scanner to read. The app then separates those ovals from the weirder batches that need human review. The hope is that this routine will lead to faster adjudications in the event of a tight finish, because the trailing candidate can quickly see if there are anywhere near...