[kellynla]

IMO after all is said and done, the punch card ballots are less expensive, less complicated and more accurate than any touch screen voting machine.

[AntiGuv]

I like optical scan voting myself, but I don't disagree with you either.

[csvset]

the punch card ballots are less expensive, less complicated and more accurate than any touch screen voting machine.

Yep, we use punchcards here, (Virginia Beach,VA), I've yet to see a chad of any sort. It's simple, quick and easy.

[patton]

Why in heck don't we just use the ATM's?

Simple, quick, easy, leaves two paper records - one in the machine, one to the customer.

The things are everywhere, too - no need for absentee ballots.

And the banks execute billions of transactions a day, with very, very, few errors.

And they would be happy to do it - for a buck a vote. Much cheeper than our current efforts.