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To: Richard Habib who wrote (86657)	11/13/2000 9:29:44 AM
From: Senator949	Read Replies (2) of 97611

Surely as tech investors we can get a handle on what is fundamentally a technical issue. What I don't understand is why they use this 1960's technology, "punched cards". If they're too darned lazy to manually count hand marked (clear X in the box) ballots why don't they at least use 21st century technology. What I could see as acceptable would be a touch screen system where the voter would touch the name of the candidate choice on a list and then the machine would come back and say your choice for "position" was "so and so" and then ask for confirmation. Once the voter had made all appropriate choices a printed receipt would be delivered to the voter to scan for accuracy. Once the voter left the booth he/she would turn in the verified printed receipt which would only be used if a manual recount was necessitated. Robin

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