[\/\/ayne]

The block / scan system of the same type used for tests seems good. It has a paper backup that can be counted.

[grania]

What ever system is used, it should be simple. In Cuyahoga County, the system is so laden with safeguards that something almost has to go wrong. Add to that absentee voting, early voting at county headquarters, multiple ID options....all in the name of fairness. I worked the polls a for second time in May. Keeping it all smoothly running and comprehensible has become impossible. It had definitely gotten more layers of activity since a year and a half ago, every layer to address some perceived problem.

[Yo-Yo]

The block / scan system of the same type used for tests seems good. It has a paper backup that can be counted.

^ This.

Optically-scanned ballots easily and cheaply scale up or down depending on anticipated turnout, unlike voting kiosks.

There is an audit trail of the original paper ballot filled out by the voter, unlike voting kiosks.

You still get electronic tabulation of votes for faster election night results, like voting kiosks.

The investment in equipment, training, and maintenance is much lower with optically scanned ballots, unlike voting kiosks.

Touch screen voting kiosks should not only no longer be purchased or funded by the federal government, they should be banned from any future use in federal elections.

[rarestia]

The block / scan system of the same type used for tests seems good. It has a paper backup that can be counted.

I agree. The old "ScanTron" method was good enough for our education system for years. It gave us a fighting chance if a machine misread an answer that was changed or a smear.

I would be on board with electronic voting if the machine provided a paper receipt of the vote. It doesn't even have to be personalized, just a piece of paper that shows the vote as tallied by the machine.

[KittyKares]

The current system has so many ways to cheat that it’s unbelievable. Here in California we have Motor Voter where non citizens can register to vote when they get their driver’s licenses. An illegal is not “officially” allowed to register, but it’s so easy to “mistakenly” register, and no one ever checks.

That’s another thing, check the voter rolls and update them! No dead people voting, no felons, no illegals, no dogs (sorry), and no voting in two states.