From: jeff 

Steve Ewing wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:14:30 -0500, Richard B.
 wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:11:37 -0500, "Steve Ewing"

>> wrote:
>>
>>> I did it twice .  I voted at 7AM on my way in to work; no line.
>>
>> Lots of voting machines are just few people there?
>
>
> We had I think four machines, the old-fashioned lever-and-switches
> kind.   I always hear about how complicated they are, but they just keep
> trucking.
>
> My preference, I think, in voting would be the optical scanners: there
> is  a paper backup by definition, and if it is rejected because you
> went  outside the ovals (and they can make the ovals big: and we all
> have been  trained in school by now with those tests) there should be a
> mechanism/procedure where you can try again on the spot.  How hard
> could  it be?
>
We have optical ballots, but they aren't "fill in the oval," they
are "Connect the lines to make an arrow."

Very easy in my opinion.

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