Comment Get the facts (Score 1) 174
First - the title is sort of misleading. This is not state wide. This is in one county - Cuyahoga. Their elections are a mess and they are grasping at straws.
Second, the one thing that electronic voting equipment does really well is informing the voter of "stupid" errors. If you have voted for more than one candidate in one race it can complain at the voter and force him/her to fix the error immediately. If you fill out a paper ballot and vote for two candidates in the same race the error won't get discovered until the vote is in the process of being counted. At that point there is no way of telling what the true vote is and the voter's vote doesn't get counted. There is not supposed to be a minimum IQ for participating in a democracy - though maybe there should be.
Second, the one thing that electronic voting equipment does really well is informing the voter of "stupid" errors. If you have voted for more than one candidate in one race it can complain at the voter and force him/her to fix the error immediately. If you fill out a paper ballot and vote for two candidates in the same race the error won't get discovered until the vote is in the process of being counted. At that point there is no way of telling what the true vote is and the voter's vote doesn't get counted. There is not supposed to be a minimum IQ for participating in a democracy - though maybe there should be.
