Why did we do away with paper ballots?

[StarryNite]

19. Arizona...we have them.

We use a special marker to connect the two ends of an arrow. Read by an optical scanner. They are not fail proof though. A few years ago I went to vote with my two adult kids. My son said it's pointless to vote because your vote doesn't count. But he did vote. He put his ballot into the scanner and the scanner promptly kicked it back out indicating he had done something invalid. The scanner attendant, my son, my daughter, and myself all looked at the place on the ballot where it showed something was wrong. But it wasn't wrong. You could pick up to three candidates for a certain position and that's exactly what my son did. The attendant told my son his vote would not count for that particular item. I guess my son could have demanded to fill out another ballot although the attendant never offered him that option. Everything else on the ballot supposedly was counted so we walked out and to this day we talk about how my son's vote did not count.