Reply #34: This is why I like the old-fashioned lever machines

[noonwitch]

That's what we use in Warren, MI at this point in time. It's what I first used to vote-both in real elections and in student council elections (our schools used the voting machines, figuring it would be educational for us).

I've never liked the punch-kind of ballots, whether on an absentee ballot (I voted that way in college) or at the precinct. I always thought that they were hard to line-up, long before the 2000 election. I still lived in Detroit in 2000-they had finally switched that year to a ballot that you draw a line across and feed into the computer yourself. I liked that better than the "butterfly ballot", but still prefer the lever machine.