Reply #119: In Canada

[LiberalLovinLug]

paper ballots have been the norm ever since I can remember. Sorry for stating the obvious but...
If it ain't broke....why fix it? Sometimes "progress" is a worse solution ie. voting machines.

Here, the voter draws a big x beside the candidate, on paper, and drops it into the box. Clear, with no hanging chads. Spoiled ballots are easy to recognise.

Then the people we employ for the day count the ballots, with representatives from the parties over seeing. all this is done and over by 8 o'clock or so the very same day.

Efficient, simple, and fraud-proof. Also all provinces use the same systems, boxes, etc...

It would be interesting to find out when the first voting machine was marketed and pushed and in what state, and which company that was associated with that. Could it be that the voting machine itself was planned as a weapon to grab and keep power for the far right?

I suppose your book answers that, I'll have to pick it up.