Electronic vote not up to speed

[Changenow]

Electronic voting produced results no faster than old-fashioned paper ballots last night in Toledo’s City Council primary.
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The unofficial results for Districts 3, 4, and 6 were not known until a little more than three hours after polls closed at 7:30 p.m. - about the same time final, unofficial numbers were released after a special election last month for a much larger number of voters in the Toledo Public School District.

In that vote, Lucas County used old-style paper ballots.

The delay occurred because several poll workers forgot to pull the memory cards out of the new electronic voting machines after the election was finished. Election workers had to go back out to voting locations around the city to fetch the cards - which contain the results of votes cast on those electronic machines - so the votes could be included in the final results.
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edited to fix link:

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030910/NEWS05/109100107

They forgot to pull the memory cards, imagine that!

[Nottingham]

1. Go Back to the Paper vote! Machines Suck!

and they are Cheating!

[JPace]

2. I remember when the Florida recount

was going on for weeks that a story came
out about a recount going on in Canada
at the same time...
(don't remember what part of Canada)

The Canadians had used paper ballots and
recounted them in hours versus Florida
in which the recount went on forever.

I'd love to go back to paper ballots.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

4. Of course the Canada recount was faster.

1. There were fewer votes to count.

2. They election officials didn't have to spend days gluing the chads back on.

[qb]

3. Paper is much safer - even with the inevitable "human" mistakes

You have the counting done by poll workers in every precinct, with the public invited to look over their shoulders as opposed to Katherine Harris pushing one "Tally the Votes" button.

[pw]

5. I'm sure those machines were absolutely secure

Between the time the polls closed and the cards were picked up again. No one would have had any opportunity to enter additional votes. Oh, no...