Eventually no more touch screen voting in MD or VA

[tmaher]

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Pressing the button, because touch screen voting sucks.

[allanh]

And that's why Randy and I became permanent absentee (Vote By Mail) voters in Santa Clara County right after we moved to Sunnyvale. Opti-scan ballots, and no long lines on voting day.

I was impressed - they even sent each of us a little "I voted." sticker to wear on November 4th!

[furr_a_bruin]

We use Ink-A-Vote here; my only problem with it is that the ballot is not easily human-readable, though it can be deciphered with the help of one's sample ballot. Since they've added the machines to detect overvotes before the ballot is submitted, that's an additional plus.

[purplebean]

We have optical scan ballots here -- they're great for quick lines! It's crucial to have the paper trail, but it's almost useless unless there's a requirement to automatically recount some number of randomly chosen precincts as an check against malicious (or incompetent) computer programming (Diebold makes optical scan machines, too...)