To: patton
Simple, quick, easy, leaves two paper records - one in the machine, one to the customer. Such machines can easily support two databases, report one, print the other.
And the banks execute billions of transactions a day, with very, very, few errors.
An ATM is just your checking account. A ballot is your freedom. The stakes are just a little different, no?
Paper ballots.
8 posted on
05/01/2004 6:53:32 AM PDT by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who are truly evil.)
To: Carry_Okie
But it gives you a paper receipt - look at it! If it is different from your vote, challange!
11 posted on
05/01/2004 7:01:22 AM PDT by
patton
(I wish we could all look at the evil of abortion with the pure, honest heart of a child.)
To: Carry_Okie
"Why in heck don't we just use the ATM's?"
Actually Diebold makes ATM's as well as the voting machines in question. Why they didn't use the same type setup(without the cameras of course) is beyond me. It could print out a receipt that you could double-check and then put in the old style boxes in case a manual recount is needed.
37 posted on
05/01/2004 9:40:52 AM PDT by
novalogic
(Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.)
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