Reply #69: thanks for all the great info on these mechanical machines

[orleans]

i never knew anything about them either (except that they looked huge and you pulled a lever)

i have been of the mind that we need to banish the dres

my precinct uses paper and we fill in the circles with a black marker. HOWEVER, when this great paper ballot is filled out the voter slides in through an automatic counter which i just happened to notice in 2004 was manufactured by DIEBOLD

(my heart sank)

my solution is: paper ballots are the best, you fill in the little oval with a black marker or pencil, and every fucking one of them gets hand counted, and counted again several times (just like we used to do in a data research company i worked at--the phone surveys would be taken and then everything got hand counted by three people and the tallies had to match or we had to recount a stack of papers)

but these mechanical machines sound fairly secure as well--

anyway, thanks for the lowdown on them.