[E. Pluribus Unum]

Let’s let Bill Gates take care of the security of elections.

What could go wrong?

[dfwgator]

Gee how did we ever get along with paper ballots for all of those years?

[ArtDodger]

I will never believe O won the last election fairly. The electronic voting machines handed him just about whatever outcome they are commanded to release.

[Riley]

Screw this. Paper trail that can be proved and investigated and vigorously prosecuted when anybody screws with it.

[arthurus]

The touch-screen machines output goes to a Soros company for vote tabulation. When the votes are counted there is no more record anywhere of the vote, only the final count itself. Recounting is not possible. Consider.

[blackdog]

I say we move the federal tax filing document day to match voting selection day. I also say that the individual’s vote should be contained in the body of the tax return filing.

[PAR35]

I’d trust 15 year old software a lot further than I’d trust modern code.

[Yo-Yo]

Electronic touch screen voting, NO. Optical scan voting, YES.

[bgill]

Last I heard, Houston, TX never did solve the case of all the voting machines being burned up.

When we voted a couple months ago, hubby told the lady the machine flipped some of his votes. She just replied that’s why you have to review your choices before you hit enter. Uh, yeah, so why did they get flipped? And what if they flip after you hit enter? Don’t know the brand name or tech name for these particular machines but it’s not touch screen. These you have to scroll down, highlight your choice and hit enter.

[camle]

the more we reply on technology, the more opportunity for chicanery or worse to occur.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Microsoft is using its cloud technology and tablets in the election process.

Like that's supposed to reassure me?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

My town and many others in this state are using optical readers with paper ballots that are over 25 years old.

There have been no calls to replace them since they are built like a A-10 Thunderbolt and just keep on working.

I think if an item to replace them with electronic touch screen machines came up at Town Meeting, it would be soundly defeated.

[Doug Loss]

Without some sort of printed acknowledgement of each vote, recounts aren't actual recounts but mere validations of the initial count (unless you allow leftists to throw "newly-discovered" ballots into the mix, in which case how is it a "recount?"). There has been an organization working on the issue of voting system integrity for some years, the Open Voting Consortium. They seem to be non-partisan; at least the problems they identify and the solutions they propose seem rational and acceptable.

[TexasRepublic]

All votes should be recorded on paper ballots that are retained until the tallies scanned from them are accepted. Nothing else leaves physical evidence as proof. Electronic systems were meant to be cheated. Stalin was right - whoever counts the votes controls the outcome.

[ronnie raygun]

Al franken got an empty trunk if anyone is interested in storage.