My precinct has the electronic voting machines now.
I don't like them. Until yesterday, I always got to vote on the old, mechanical machines with the big lever and the satisfying kerchunk.
With the electronic machines you don't get a kerchunk, just a little box that pops up and says, "You Voted."
So not satisfying. Because it could as easily say "You're a poodle!" Or "Diebold delivers for its pet candidates." (I forgot to check the brand of these machines.)
I'd feel a lot better about these machines if they printed out a copy of my marked ballot which I could verify myself and drop into a locked ballot box.
Hard copy backups are a good thing.
117 words | November 9, 2005 10:01 PM | Because I said