On an odd note, I voted today using voting machines at the local courthouse. The machines used solid buttons made of plastic, clearly labeled for what they did, and there were at least three redundancies in the programming itself where it asked you if you were sure that this was what you wanted to vote for.
And then, it printed out paper results of what you voted behind a glass screen for you to go over again, to make sure you voted for these people, making a hardcopy record. At which point, you had to press the "Cast Vote" button again in order to lock in the votes you made. Someone beside me apparently messed up and had to cancel her votes, and I got to listen to the nice guy helping out explain to her how she could just scroll back to what she wanted to change, change it, and then go back to the confirmation screen again.
Personally, I think this is much more reliable than a touch screen of all things. I may be a technophile that doesn't see people's phobias of voting machines, but a touch screen is notoriously unreliable for something as simple as inputting your groceries at Wal-Mart. I wouldn't trust it with actual voting.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
And then, it printed out paper results of what you voted behind a glass screen for you to go over again, to make sure you voted for these people, making a hardcopy record. At which point, you had to press the "Cast Vote" button again in order to lock in the votes you made. Someone beside me apparently messed up and had to cancel her votes, and I got to listen to the nice guy helping out explain to her how she could just scroll back to what she wanted to change, change it, and then go back to the confirmation screen again.
Personally, I think this is much more reliable than a touch screen of all things. I may be a technophile that doesn't see people's phobias of voting machines, but a touch screen is notoriously unreliable for something as simple as inputting your groceries at Wal-Mart. I wouldn't trust it with actual voting.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."