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May 20, 2005
Getting It Right
Washington County election officials have decided to keep paper ballots.
Washington County ballots will still be cast on paper and counted at a central location, election officials decided Thursday.
County election commissioners voted unanimously to retain the optical-scan ballot counters that tabulate votes at the county courthouse on election nights.
Good decision. Simple is better, and no one has convinced me yet that electronic voting can be made idiot and/or tamper proof.
"Even the best machines fail sometimes, so the simpler we can keep it, the better," [County Judge] Hunton said. "The way we operate, the public can come in and see the whole process."
Voter education should be simple given the basic nature of the system, Lundstrom said.
"You can't idiot-proof everything, but this isn't hard to grasp," Lundstrom said. "We'll do whatever we can, but you can't educate a person not to be stupid."
Ain't that the truth.
Posted by Rita at May 20, 2005 05:41 AM