[thoughtomator]

As a professional systems developer, I am astonished and appalled at 'computer voting'. There is no substitute for hard copies of critical data - and I'd say that a cast vote is about as critical a datum as a free nation can have.

Computer voting is an invitation to fraud. There is no substitute that is sufficient to replace a paper ballot.

[Dog Gone]

As a professional systems developer, I am astonished and appalled at 'computer voting'. There is no substitute for hard copies of critical data - and I'd say that a cast vote is about as critical a datum as a free nation can have.

If banks wire money instead of sending trucks filled with currency, I think electronic votes can be managed.

[Cicero]

I agree. Computer voting is a TERRIBLE idea. At least with paper ballots somebody has to make off with a heavy box full of ballots, and might get caught with the evidence in the car trunk or closet, or even floating in the bay. The same with punch cards and chads, although they are more easily spoiled. But with a computer, all you need to do is hose the software or plug in a fraudware program, and you could instantly flip 1,000 R votes to 1,000 D votes, in less than a nanosecond, and tracelessly. Or, as happened in the Florida primary, just flush all the votes down the drain and come up with a big zero if you don't like what you see.