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[Edward Wesolowski <edwes AT idisplay.com>]

Thomas:
I was surprised when I learned that electronic voting machines have been 
used in some of the NC "Mountain" counties since around 1996.  Evidently 
they've had good success and like them.

I'd heard of the system in Brazil that Unisys, and National Semiconductor 
developed:
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/world/4423781.htm
seems it works for them. But the article's right, that's one system for 90 
million people. In the US there's multiple systems for each of 50 states!

Ed Wesolowski


 3/11/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> Rachel Cox wrote:
> > Yeah, I'm not very excited about electronic voting at this point
> > myself. I'm eager for the time when I can be, but right now there are
> > just too many questions for me to be comfortable with it.
>
> Well in North Carolina at least, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.  The 
> paper ballot and optical reader system we now use (in Orange, Durham and 
> Wake at least) works great, and there's a physical ballot and audit 
> trail.  The ballot itself is simple and easy to understand.  I have even 
> witnessed a local election recount on behalf of the Democratic Party and I 
> think the system works well.  I would be extremely suspicious of any 
> effort to replace this system with anything else.
>
> TaB
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