[who_would_fardels_bear]

The problem with paper ballots (whether punch type or ink blot type) is that people are idiots. Idiots take the time to wait in line at the polls, but for some reason don't check their ballots to see that they have punched out all the holes or inked in all the circles.

At least that was the story from Florida in 2000.

Because of the incompetence of a few, electronic voting machines were foisted upon all of us without proper vetting.

We also now have vote by mail because people can't be asked to wait in a line for an hour or so to do their public duty, even though these same people will wait in line for hours to get a deal on a color TV. I'm sure that vote by mail is extremely open to fraud ... and incompetence as well.

At some point we're going to have to reorganize the US around tribal grounds, have everyone who votes dip his finger in purple ink, and you can only vote with your tribe since they know you.

[chopperman]

Those improperly punched ballots were obviously the results of attempting to simultaneously punch multiple ballots quickly.