Black residents of Harris County rated four voting technologies on a five-point scale, with 1 indicating “very high trust” and 5 showing “very low trust.” The technologies where the Direct-Recording-Electronic voting system, or DREs, where voters cast their ballot by computer; voting-by-mail, where voters mark choices on a ballot and mail it in; Optical Scan Technology or the “Central Count” system, where mailed ballots are scanned in by computer; and Internet Voting, where voters cast ballots over the Internet using a computer. Overall, DRE voting technology was the most highly trusted among respondents.
When overall trust ratings are analyzed, the public did not have much faith in Internet voting, which received a score of -35. Vote-by-mail was close behind at –33 while optical scan methods scored -27. DREs received a score of -11.
— Diverse staff reports
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