>>Have to agree with you there. With the incredible improvements in technology over the last ten years, you'd think paper ballots would be a thing of the past. A touch-screen polling machine would be simple enough, and if a physical ballot is required by law, have the machine spit one out. Use the Internet to report the results (on a preliminary basis) back to a central server. Pretty simple exercise. Even the most remote of places in the US are accessible by telephone, I would think.
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>Yes, but whose money is going to pay for it?
Who pays for the equipment to begin with? We do, thru the state election departments (or whomever is responsible for those things). What's the cost of a reccount?
Dan LeClair
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