[Smogger]

Warning San Bernadino County voters:

San Bernadino County will NOT be using punch card ballots for this election. Instead they used an optical balloting system where you draw a line across a broken arrow next to the vote you want to place.

I returned from voting (Yes/Arnie). I didn't much care for the optical system and was even more disturbed that the county is moving to a touch screen system. As a software engineer that does a lot of work for state government I can say with some certainity that touchscreen systems that do not generate paper ballots are an EXTREMELY bad idea, and could easily subject the voting process to fraud and software errors.

I suggest we contact the San Bernadino County election supervisiors ASAP to voice our displeasure.

[wardaddy]

An unreported irony here is that high tech voting has been proven to have around the same margin of error (around 3%) as the old punch cards or pencil-in ballots.

I agree that software manipulation is a a scary thought in ATM style voting. There needs to be a written verification at least.