slate - "The Silliest Advice in That Asinine New York Times Op-Ed Promoting Democratic Centrism"

[Mr.Bill]

18. California has a law

that says at least one electronic voting machine has to be available at each precinct. What do you want to bet the people who make these machines lobbied for that law?

Now I live in a small town in a county with a population of only 60,000. Our demographics reflect an older population. These are the type of people who still write checks at the grocery store and don't have cell phones. I have worked about five elections at a precinct where a big in-person turnout at my precinct would be 150 voters. Most vote absentee. I think in five elections I have seen three people use the electronic machine.

And this law forcing us to have these machines at every precinct costs the county not just for purchasing and maintaining the machines, but also hiring and training people to operate them at every precinct. It's ridiculous.

We have had the same Registrar of Voters for over 25 years and her reputation is impeccable.