The absentee ballot for Santa Clara county, CA is a punch card with numbers on the holes. Since I don’t have my own Pollstar machine, I had to punch the holes out with a pen, and remove the hanging chads by hand, per the instructions. I can see that this might be hard for an illiterate to figure out, but they do give instructions in many languages and stuff.
Since there was no obsolete voting machine involved, the Ninth Circuit shouldn’t have a problem with this voting technique, eh?