[Anti-Bubba182]

I used punched cards for years and last year we had the choice of a touch screen or paper ballots. Most people chose paper. Paper is faster. Anybody who ever took a standardized test, which would be practically every voter by now, can just jump right in and vote without a lot of instruction.

I don't know why they ever used touch screens in the first place. The election officials fell for a sales pitch and a slick gimmick.

[supercat]

I don't know why they ever used touch screens in the first place. The election officials fell for a sales pitch and a slick gimmick.

People who are blind can use touch-screen machines without assistance (and thus without letting anyone know how they're voting). On the other hand, even places that use optical-scan ballots could handle blind voters by simply having a touch-screen machine that places marks on a paper ballot as directed by the voter; the paper ballot would then be counted the same as any other.