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["Lance A. Brown" <lance AT bearcircle.net>]

Jeremy Portzer said the following on 8/5/2008 7:50 PM:
> Lance A. Brown wrote:
> > Tanner Lovelace said the following on 8/5/2008 12:59 PM:
> > > It is quite a big endeavor and to make sure things don't go wrong the
> > > entire process is purposely made as simple as possible.  It's really only
> > > the (thankfully few) edge cases where things can get complicated.
> > Edge case, in my opeinion, include just about every kind of totally 
> > electronic voting system we've seen so far in this country.
>
> Tanner was talking about the job of an election judge in Durham County. 
>   They use optical scan ballots.  I suspect that the edge cases he 
> refers to are things like ballots getting jammed in the machine, or 
> explaining to people who aren't properly registered how the provisional 
> ballots work, or things like that.  As the local polling place election 
> judge, I doubt he is responsible for designing the system.  :-)

I know.  Someone else had widened the discussion (I thought) to issues 
other states have suffered through.  I was commenting on that. 
Personally, I'm VERY glad we used optical-scanned ballots in NC and 
would fight any measure to replace them with electronic voting.

--[Lance]

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