[L98Fiero]

Mainly because what you say is bunk. As long as man is capable of infusing dry ink onto paper or spraying jets of ink at paper, there can and likely will be a paper trail. I’ve voted a couple of times on a touch-screen electronic voting machine.

Both times I saw a printed version of my selection. I’m not sure what your beef is, nor do I really care. My problem is I suspect you come here under false pretenses, “lifelong republican”, only to push your pet cause.

Since most documented cases of ballot tampering are Democrat and took place with paper ballots, I believe it is beneficial for conservatives to vote electronically. No “hanging chads”, no “dimpled chads”, no replay of Florida 2000, no Democrats riding around with a trunk full of paper ballots.

If you like, you can try to fight technology. Many have tried. All have failed. Perhaps we should just chisel our choices in a stone tablet, ala “The Flintstones”?

I’m of the opinion that if you cared squat about conservatism, you would have posts reflecting that. You don’t. You don’t even have comments on other people’s threads. The FReepers who agree with you will ignore your obvious agenda because they share your views on this one issue. I’m about 90% sure you are misleading everyone here with your moniker.

[lifelong_republican]

I’m quoting experts at MIT.

Shouldn’t you contact them and tell them why you claim their statements would be ‘bunk’?

What do you imagine would be ‘conservative’ about a premature jump into the use of electronics already found by the GAO to be unsuitable for use in elections?

Your unfounded misgivings about a messenger don’t have anything to do with the content of the message, in case you hadn’t been aware of that. Please make a note of it. Thank you.

[TxCopper]

I guess it depends on the state. In '04 & 06 when I did early voting, it was on an ATM style machine with no printout after I was done. My vote/ballot was saved on a memory card.

In 2000, however, it was on a scan-tron type of machine that read my choices as it collected the ballot.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Since most documented cases of ballot tampering are Democrat and took place with paper ballots, I believe it is beneficial for conservatives to vote electronically. No “hanging chads”, no “dimpled chads”, no replay of Florida 2000, no Democrats riding around with a trunk full of paper ballots.

I am certainly attracted to that, too. But I think that the problem is fundamentally intractable as long as we have a secret ballot. There is always an irreducible amount of trust required as long as there isn't a public tally which shows the vote before and after you voted. With that, you could know exactly how your vote registered - and also, exactly how anyone else voted while you were in the polling place.

But we need a secret ballot, so . . .