>FWIW, punch cards have the highest failure rate of all the voting methods in use. I forget the exact statistics, but there are several times more rejected ballots with punchcards than with any other kind of voting.
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>Tamar

Did you catch the NPR piece this evening about the guy (now retired in Thailand) who investigated the Votomatic (sp) punch-card system for the government nearly 20 years ago and recommended very strongly that it be abandoned?

Of course, his report was circulated and then ignored.

Also quite a few reports tonight about Texas elected officials claiming that hand-counting is far more accurate than the punch-card readers.

Peter