voting machines
jillgstephens — Sun, 04/29/2007 - 15:23
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It seems to me that the voting machines that rely on computer based counting of votes are inherently faulty in that there is no fool safe way to insure fair elections. The counts are all on computers and it is computers that do the re-count. With no paper trail, it is impossible to guarantee all votes will be counted.
solution: do away with computer based voting machines and return to paper. I believe either Minnesota or Wisconsin has this and are very happy with it.
what about optical scan machines?
Isn't the idea there that you mark a paper ballot, a computer counts them, but there is a paper trail? What do you think of that system?
voting machines
I don't have information on the machines with scanning devices. I'll get back to you on that. Meanwhile, look at Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie's website- elections minnesota...