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Article: Replace voting machines with paper ballots.(Perspective)(Letter to the editor)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 18, 2005
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It probably wasn't on last night's news, but our one and only 45-day public comment period, for choosing our next generation of voting equipment, has already begun. Our tried and true lever voting machines will soon be banned for use. The choice to replace them is between the newfangled electronic machines and paper ballots that can be read by optical scanners.
With decades of experience with computers and programming, I'm convinced the right option here is the paper ballot. I've seen, firsthand, the ease at which programmable devices can be configured to portray one image and deliver just the opposite. To pretend electronic voting panels could be trusted to ...