That's actual cost to consumer being paid in my jurisdiction. Note that most nuclear plants in North America are now achieving very high availability and long life spans. The government here is proposing to subsidize solar/wind to 80c/kWh just to make it profitable. Misinformation from radical environmental lobby groups is pretty common. They profit from promoting their cause.

The price quoted is for how much power the panel could produce under ideal circumstances. It is not all that useful a figure. If you don't maintain your panels or if they don't live up to the full life span you have no hope of recouping your investment. The current *actual* nuclear generation price is around 5 cents/kWh. Last I checked solar was somewhere around 16-20 times this.

I've worked as a poll clerk in Canada (a long time ago, the first election I ever voted in). There is nothing wrong with paper ballots marked with a plain old pencil. As I recall, polls closed at 8pm, and we had everything counted twice and reported by 8:45pm. The system is completely accountable and there is basically no practical way to cheat the system especially with party observers present.

Americans seem preoccupied with goofy electronic systems with punched chads and flakey proprietary software. Just mark an X friends, it is the simple solution.