Letting the Voter Count

[glatt]

I would feel much more confident in a paper ballot where I fill in the ovals with a number two pencil. You can run it through the scanners as many times as you want, and the "chad" won't fall out. You can have a permanant record that you can go back to as many times as you want. You can even count them manually if you want to double-check the results of the scanners. Also, before I turn it in, I can visually see that my vote has been cast the way I want it to.

I have almost no faith in the electronic machines that my county has switched to in the last two years. (Not Deibold.) I trust my county officials are honest and mean well, but that's the only faith I have in the whole system. The technology is unproven. In fact, all the evidence points to the possibility of flaws in the technology.