Letting the Voter Count

[glatt]

I'd have to disagree. All the things that make computers great are also what make them easy to mess with. It's very easy to change data in an electronic format versus a paper format. A couple keystrokes and you can change a thousand ballots. With paper it would take all day to do the same thing.

Tampering isn't even the thing I'm most concerned about. It's computer glitches. What happens if the computers crash? Typically, districts lean pretty heavily toward one party or another, so if a power outage, line surge, or system failure causes all the votes from one district to be lost, that could turn the election. With paper ballots, you would have a record of the votes.