Regards, Ivan
I disagree, only because the following has proved better wherever it has been used as in Texas and most of Florida (even more now in many districts, except those Dem districts with the hanging chads that spent multi-millions when the could have only spent multi thousands or a couple million).
The Mark-sense machine is the only machine in use that is the way to go.
It is still manufactured and is a machine that uses paper ballots printed with circles, ovals, squares, or rectangles that voters fill in with a pen or pencil to mark their votes (great for retirees who can do bingo cards).
Optical scanning technology is generally used to detect the marks on each ballot.
Some mark-sense systems require ballots to be marked using soft lead pencils, while others may be marked with almost any writing instrument (although most require that red ink not be used). Similar systems are widely used for standardized college entrance exams.
Ballot questions are generally printed directly on the ballot, next to the ballot choices. Write-in votes can usually be marked directly on the ballot as well.
Mark-sense ballots may be tallied at local precincts or centralized tallying facilities. Some precinct tallying systems are designed to allow voters to submit their own ballots for scanning.
The scanning machine can thus notify voters if their ballot is improperly marked, giving them an opportunity to remark their ballots.
This has been one of my pet interests since the 2000 debacle in FL and I would love to see these machine used in every district in every state of the union. I have some interesting documentation for anyone interested.