Oh for God's sake.
It's 2006.
Show the old lady your driver's license and voter's reg card, get out a barrel of purple ink and some paper with photos of the candidates on it, with a R for Republican, D for Democrat or I for Independent and O for other like the Green weenies, etc, on them.
Dunk your finger like the Kurds do, and get on with the
sh-t-ng grin part.
Seems to me that if rural Africa or Nowhere-a-stan can vote without all of this BS; it can be done in Ohio, or Idaho or wherever.
My friend wasn't complaining about how hard the machines were to operate -- in fact, she said once someone finally got them going, they were relatively easy to use. The problem where she lived was that the machines weren't operational at 7:00 am when the polls opened and for a time no one could find the paper ballots.
She also said she didn't like the fact that there was no privacy -- the machines were out in the open -- anyone walking by could see how you're voting. I don't know that I would like that either.