Hours of staring at chads by a select group of people via the news sure would make more sense. /s
I rather like the system my town uses. You must draw a black ink line next to the name of your intended candidate. The line completes the middle section of an arrow pointing to a name and the whole ballot is inserted into and read by an optical scanner. Early 80s technology and damned near infallible. No chads. No touch screens and most importantly...no Windoze programs needed to access the machine and tally the votes which are then entered into a database that allows various reports to be run...or modified.