One thing that Canada does absolutely right is the paper ballot. They run the whole country on it and it never takes more than 24 hrs. to get results. If each precinct counts the votes in full public view and each precinct is totaled together, it’s not rocket science. Instead we let ourselves get rolled from hanging chads to invisible hanging chads.
Will this story EVER appear anywhere other than FR and the Gouveneur Times?
The first official use of a lever type voting machine, known then as the “Myers Automatic Booth,” occurred in Lockport, New York in 1892. Four years later, they were employed on a large scale in the city of Rochester, New York, and soon were adopted statewide. By 1930, lever machines had been installed in virtually every major city in the United States, and by the 1960’s well over half of the Nation’s votes were being cast on these machines.
Mechanical lever machines were used by 20.7% of registered voters in the United States as of the 1996 Presidential election. Because these machines are no longer made, the trend is to replace them with computer-based marksense or direct recording electronic systems.