Yay!

[dcseain]

For a change, Richmond makes sense:

Saying that electronic voting machines are susceptible to fraud and error, lawmakers will require election boards to replace them with machines such as optical scanners that offer a paper trail.

This is a big happy. DC had changed to optical-scan while i lived there, and it is a very superior system to the black-box touch-screen dealies.

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[kung-fu-monkey.livejournal.com]

Are the optical scanner like the ones they use at the supermarket? You know, they swipe it over the red laser, and >BEEP< there's a reading from the bar code. Those things just piss me off. >BEEP< Please swipe again >BEEP< Please swipe again >BEEP<...

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Alas, no, they're Scantron-style ballots, like for the ACT or SAT.

[kmhoofnagle.livejournal.com]

This is what Falls Church had before we were ordered by law to go paperless. I am stupidly relieved to see them back, tho.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

I'm told most of Loudoun had those, too. Here in Fairfax, and where i lived in Arlington, we had the mechanical pull-lever kind before.