On February 11, the Florida Supreme Court issued its opinion in Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections v Browning, SC07-2074. The Court said that if a single county in Florida wants to have a local law saying vote-counting machines must have a paper trail, the county can do that. Earlier, the State Court of Appeals had ruled against Sarasota County, saying the county is not free to ban such machines. But the Supreme Court reversed the lower court.
What century will each State have the SAME election laws in ALL parts of such State – with the SAME election equipment ???
BACK to ALL paper ballots ONLY — the very long time paper trail ???
What exactly is the EVIL fixation for having INSTANT election results on election nights — via rigged E-voting systems ???
I was going to say that. What about good old paper ballots, maybe using an optical scanner to make vote counting faster? That way, there will be fast results while maintaining the evidence in case there’s a dispute. Also, the results will be informed relatively quickly. The only problem might be when there’s a write in candidate with large support, like in the 2002 DC mayoral primaries in both the Democratic and Republican parties.
Of course, people who want to commit fraud will try regardless of the voting method used. One has to hope that there’s enough supervision to prevent it.