Reply #2: No! Opti-scans have many problems.

[Liberty Belle]

In San Diego, one-third of Diebold optical scanners broke down on election day, some for the ENTIRE day.

In Florida, fishy results iwth opti-scans led to suspicions of tampering.

Paper ballots are best. Failing that, there are machines that provide voter-verifiable paper receipts. Also, check out ownership of the voting machine company in question. Look up the CEO, top officers, and any advisory committee members. Compare that against a list of GOP donors at www.opensecrets.org. No partisan ownership of voting machines!

Also, lobby your secretary of state and legislators to prevent voting machine companies or other private companies from being allowed to count votes or transport ballots. Lots of shennanigans when this was done in Ohio and elsewhere.