Of course, one of the big questions of today's election is whether the electronic voting machines will work.
The little town where I live uses good-old-fashioned paper ballots, with boxes where you mark your choice with an X.
In this day of smart scanners, and good OCR, and image parsing, I don't know why everyone doesn't return to that system. It would solve most all the problems of poor usability of the machines, as well as the questions about software errors, electronic vote manipulation, and recount audit trails.
Anyway, send me your voting booth experiences. I'll post them here. Did it work? Are you comfortable that your vote will be counted correctly?
Posted by jackhodgson at November 2, 2004 08:27 AM