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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (695155)	8/3/2005 2:20:51 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

A system I envision would have an optically read ballot sheet that is read and posted when the voter inserts it into a reader. The vote would be registered at the polling place and at a centralized computer which would have a bullet proof backup. The totals from the polling place would have to agree with the central computer, and the paper ballot sheet could be the hard evidence if a recount were called for. There has to be a physical as well as an electronic copy of every vote. I would be very hard-nosed about people who can't read the instructions on the ballot. Faulty votes (like voting for two candidates for the same slot) would simply be sequestered and ignored.