[BlueStateDepression]

I liked paper ballots until I was introduced to the term "preagnant chad" in 2000. I will never forget the picture of the 'BEMF' looking at a ballot trying to decide "voter intent".

[SittinYonder]

until I was introduced to the term "preagnant chad"

I suspect - whether it actually happens or just Democrats claim that it happened - the next term you won't like will be "vote hacking." It's just amazing to me we got along with paper ballots for 230 years without the country falling apart.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

You do know the difference between a paper ballot and a voting punch card, right? There can not possibly be a hanging chad on a paper ballot, and what they showed in Florida in 2000 which led to the supposed "solution" of electronic voting had nothing whatsoever to do with paper ballots.

A hint: paper ballots are made out of paper, and punch cards are made out of card stock, which is thicker and stiffer, and can have incompeltely punched chads.

Here in our county in WV we have used paper ballots since elections began in the 1800s, and there has never been any outcry about hanging chads in the past 200 years. People got a piece of paper with all the races and levies, and they also got a pencil to mark their votes. Then actual human beings (of bothe major parties) would sit there and open up the folded paper ballots and make a tally. The actual paper ballots were then sealed in a box for the later canvassing and possible challenges. (Unfortunately, this has been changed due to the federal government offering to "help" pay for laptop computers for electronic voting, which many of us resisted.)