[lifelong_republican]

American votes should be made in America.

[RWB Patriot]

But then what about our troops overseas?

[rickdylan]

There has to be a way to trace every vote back to a SSN or some national ID number, and a phone number; we need a voters' bill of rights and that, i.e. knowing that your're not simply sitting there voting against dead and/or fictional people, has to be part of it.

[cripplecreek]

I like my paper ballot.

[freekitty]

A dimwits dream, eh?

[Don Corleone]

Hooray...lets kill more trees...we need paper ballots...../s

[kindred]

[Greens say electronic voting should be scrapped]

Could it be that they, like all liberals, have a hard time fixing the vote?

[Western Phil]

All electronic voting systems will always be suspect because the average person cannot verify that his vote is really counted. The paper vote may not be counted, but the system can be understand by the average person.

Instead of the old chad system, Champaign County in Illinois now uses a system in which the voter fills in boxes on the ballot as in grade school tests. The ballot is fed into a scanner which counts the vote. The ballot is then dumped into the sealed container underneath for possible manual recount or whatever later.

[momteacherandvp]

I live in a very rural county in Colorado. In November, I voted on a new electronic machine.

On the left side of the monitor screen there was a separate clear plastic screen that that covered a paper copy of my vote. I selected my candidates, and a list of the votes was printed on the paper. I was asked to look at the paper to confirm that it was correct. When I pressed vote, the paper scrolled up on a roll. So there was an electronic ballot and a paper ballot that could be used to audit the machine if necessary.

It seemed very secure to me.

Our county's votes have been audited by the state a couple of times in the past few elections (probably because we are a strong republican county and our state as been TAKEN OVER by democrats) and the original count was perfect each time.

If my little backward county that has no money to spend on anything can figure this out, then I'm sure the rest of them can also.

The idea that huge amounts of money would be spent on electronic machines that are not secure, and then people would insist that they go back to the old way which was not secure, and the same people want us to vote without proving who you are, or better yet, want to make it legal for illegals to vote...grr...it just proves that a fair vote is not what they are trying to accomplish