>I'm more confident in a manual count verified by observers from all interested parties than I am in a 100 percent accurate and unbreakable computerized system. I'm trying to imagine the fallout from a hard-disk crash, power failure, lightning strike, etc. when there is no paper trail to reconstruct the files.
Sure, there are some issues to be resolved - but I'm saying it's inevitable, and there are positive sides to it - note Doug's suggestions in thread #
440875 on how it might work, and allowing for a paper trail.
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.