[DustyMoment]

There are arguments to be made on either side of the touch screen voting machines. Dems in south Florida proved in 2000 that they lack the skills to properly mark a paper ballot. However, by the same token, despite the fact that touch screens have shown a greater propensity for fraud since they don't maintain any kind of paper trail (whose dumb idea was that!?), the Dems haven't gravitated to them either.

Crist is in a no-win situation with the touch screen machines, but I daresay that, in this situation, discretion is the better part of valor and he is probably making the right decision.

[Iwo Jima]

Dems in south Florida proved in 2000 that they lack the skills to properly mark a paper ballot.

No such thing remotely happened. Paper ballots were overall properly marked. Florida 2000 was merely a contrived exercise in getting people to accept even clamor for electronic voting so that Hillary could become president due to massive electronic vote fraud. You fell for the Clintons scam, hook line & sinker.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

There are arguments to be made on either side of the touch screen voting machines. Dems in south Florida proved in 2000 that they lack the skills to properly mark a paper ballot.

This is not what happened in Florida. The truth is there were Democrats who were willing to let themselves be portrayed as too stupid to correctly mark a paper ballot but if you read the evidence chronicled by Free Republic, the Democrats were using any means they could to steal the election.

The reason they kept recounting was because they were trying to destroy Bush votes and create new ones for Gore. The problem for the Democrats was that they had underestimated the number of votes that Bush received and they had trouble making up the difference.

It's worth the futher investigation.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17718

[lifelong_republican]

I agree with you that Crist is making the right decision.

The corrupt Democrats in PA have deliberately forced ballotless elections on the voters because they want to manipulate elections with as much ease and secrecy as possible with the electronics.

[bill1952]

Depends by what you mean by a paper trail.

If anything goes to the voter, then free elections would be over forever.

As far as fraud in the machines, nobody has ever proved - or even close - that there is any manipulation anywhere at all.

It would be extremely difficult to do. Every machine is a standalone console, so ever machine would have to be tampered with by an expert who also happens to know the source code, and then kept hush through a large amount of people up through the chain.

IMO, the fears of vote manipulation of the electronic machines is ungrounded in fact, however, I have no problem with a machine keeping an internal count on a paper receipt that could be unsealed for recount.