vote-casting

Thursday was the first election in which the bill governed vote-casting, two years after fielding criticism from the U.K.’s Electoral Commission and advocates for the potentially discriminatory effects of such a scheme.

Some are pushing for officials to ditch electronic vote-casting altogether in favor of paper ballots filled out by hand and machine-scanned.

The roughly 12-hour rush of vote-casting came as Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaled that House Democrats were open to dropping a $15 federal minimum wage from Mr. Biden’s plan should the proposal be ruled out of bounds under the Senate’s strict budget process rules.

Ballot-marking devices were not conceived as primary vote-casting tools but as accessible options for people with disabilities.

Ballot-marking machines were initially developed not as primary vote-casting tools but as “accessible” alternatives for the disabled.