[Andy_Stephenson]

"E-voting, be it touch-screen or other, will produce more uncertainty and doubt -- not good things in elections."

I concur...However...In my investigations over the last 2 years...I have discovered that optical scans can be as fraud prone as DRE's. It is not a technology problem...it is an audit problem. After all counting votes is accounting.

[Cboldt]

I have discovered that optical scans can be as fraud prone as DRE's. It is not a technology problem...it is an audit problem. After all counting votes is accounting.

I'm not familiar with the acronym "DRE," and don't grasp what you mean by "not a technology problem."

My high opinion of ink/paper ballots may be misplaced. I admit and expect errors in the optical scan process, but when the contest is close, there is less interpretation of an ink/paper indication than of a hole-punch indication. That is, the audit is more reliable.

As for gross, outright fraud (adding a stack of punched ballots, or a stack of marked ballots, "voted" by one individual), all systems have weak points that require guarding.