What to expect at the voting booth as Texas officials respond to Trump’s executive order

After ban on barcodes, three counties are getting rid of the touchscreen machines they’ve long used and having voters mark their ballots by hand.

By Natalia Contreras for Votebeat

After years of using a touchscreen machine to mark their ballots, voters in at least three Texas counties will be asked instead to make their selections directly on the paper ballots, by hand, starting in November.

Election officials in Collin, Williamson, and Bastrop counties said they’re proactively changing their voting procedures and equipment in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump in March that sought to mostly ban voting equipment that uses barcodes or QR codes on paper ballots to speed up vote counting.

Some other provisions in the executive order have been blocked by the courts,