...politicians.
Voting Machines Banned by Dutch Minister (Good for the Dutch, btw)
Seriously, what's so bad about paper ballots, fundamentally? Nothing really.
Poor implementations of anything can be bad, just look at all those goofy attempts at planes back in the day? The ones with like, a hundred wings, or a big steam engine? (IE punch-card ballots) Just because those didn't work and are hilarious to look at today, doesn't mean that we should move to an electronic voting scheme.
Something I think a lot of people don't realize, is that it's a computer that initially counts your votes, anyway. It's not people. In my town, you take a yellow (I think) piece of card stock with a bunch of incomplete arrows (missing the middle segment), a sharpie, and you fill in the arrow for the candidate/issue you're voting for. Nice, simple, no hanging chads, easily verifiable by anyone who looks at it, and uses a simple bar-code scanner, basically, to record votes.
The whole punch-card system seemed a really bass-ackwards way of voting to begin with, like needing to use gunpowder, a fuse and a match to start your car, rather than the battery/electric motor we all know and love.
I think we just need more engineers in government.
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