In my home state you still have the option of paper ballots, but in practice if you choose the paper ballot method over the computer machine the people running the polling station seem to have a set pattern of trying to first dazzle you into voting electronically and if that doesn't convince you they follow up with rehearsed arguments about being the lone paper voter and then move to attacks on your skill and intelligence saying maybe you don't think your smart enough to use a computer and then finally if that doesn't work they degenerating into vague or implied threats before ultimately giving in and letting you have a paper ballot.
The threats are mostly veiled and run along the line of "Your vote might not be counted" or "It will be easy to remember you".
I use to think it was just me a "known" republican in a mostly democrat area, but in the past 6 years some extended family(democrat) moved back to the area from a state that was using paper ballots and they went through the same cycle as I to get a paper ballot. Later the more they thought about the vague threats the more it scared them and they called us and asked us what it meant to be classified as agitators and being "watched" .
The "very hard sell" to force me and I assume everyone else to the computer voting machines varies from vote to vote, but it is always there.
hmelton
God Bless
The threats are mostly veiled and run along the line of "Your vote might not be counted" or "It will be easy to remember you".
I use to think it was just me a "known" republican in a mostly democrat area, but in the past 6 years some extended family(democrat) moved back to the area from a state that was using paper ballots and they went through the same cycle as I to get a paper ballot. Later the more they thought about the vague threats the more it scared them and they called us and asked us what it meant to be classified as agitators and being "watched" .
The "very hard sell" to force me and I assume everyone else to the computer voting machines varies from vote to vote, but it is always there.
hmelton
God Bless