Comment Re:How is a Diebold machine like a Pakistani citiz (Score 1) 114
IMHO we were better-off with the old scantrons (mark your machine-readable ballot with a pen).
It has the advantages of electronic voting (fast, easy counting) plus the security of thousands of pounds of paper (hard to rig).
We just implemented this in New York State with this week's primary elections. To call it a disaster would be an understatement. No privacy (reports of poll workers seeing how people marked their ballots and commenting "Well, there's another one for Schneiderman!"); confusing ballots (why weren't the incumbents listed first?, type so small that each ballot marking station had a magnifying glass as standard equipment); poorly-trained poll workers who didn't know who made the scanning machines, how to set them up, or whether the ballots should be fed in face up, face down, head-in, or tail-in (actually any of the above is supposed to work) -- thank goodness this was only a really-poorly-attended primary and not something like a Presidential election. Bring back my trusty old mechanical lever machine!
