Reply #5: Bev, you are awesome and your work is so important... [View All]

and as far as TV goes, I do hope your hairstyle is at least slightly better than Ted Koppel's :)

I think the important issues are these:
1 - Fragility of software based machines - What if there is a crash and the data is lost (or a hard drive fails) - I am an engineer and I know these things happen all the time.

2 - Therefore we need 2 things:
-A voter verifiable paper ballot comes out of the machine on a card
-The voter HAS to put the paper ballot in a sealed box for future audits.

Now they'll say, so if you have these 2 things, what is the advantage of electronic voting? We might as well stick to paper, no ?
I think electronic voting, with the 2 things above, can limit the number of voting errors (no more chads, user interface can be simple, etc.). The card ballots contain only the choices of the voters (less bulky) and could have a shape\layout that allows them to be easily tallied.

Go Bev, you are our hero !!!!