BBV: New system no easy touch for 134 voters in Broward

[Andy_Stephenson]

Three years after helping render punch-card voting systems obsolete, Broward County voters have proven that no election system is foolproof.

In Tuesday's special election to fill state House seat 91, 134 Broward voters managed to use the 2-year-old touch-screen equipment without casting votes for any candidate.

How so many happened to cast nonvotes remains a riddle. Unlike with punch cards or paper ballots, there's no paper record with electronic voting that might offer a clue to the voter's intent.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/7660910.htm

[Eric J in MN]

1. For anyone who hasn't emailed his/her Congressperson yet,

For anyone who hasn't emailed his/her Congressman yet for a voter-verifiable paper trail, use the link in my signature:

[Sir_Shrek]

2. After all of this...

I'm convinced that we need to go back to a system of taking a slip of paper and a pencil and physically writing the name of the person you want to win on said slip of paper, and then depositing it in a ballot box.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. I want to chisel it out in stone...

...twice, so I can take a copy with me.