I really like the ballots we use here in Dane County. Very easy to read and use. Tdidates are listed under each section, with a broken arrow next to the name. (There is also a space for write-ins.) You take a felt tip marker and connect the arrow that points to your selected candidate. The names are in a straight list, a spaced far enough apart so as not to confuse them. If you make a mistake, you can get a new ballot. Finished ballots are fed into a machine which counts off the number of ballots it has received. (I fed the machine at my polling place the 457th ballot of the day.) Very neat and orderly. Why the hell doesn't everyone use this system?
One thing is for sure. I realy wouldn't want to have to vote on a touch screen. I think that is unreliable, and there is no paper trail to verify. Who knows what the programmng is really doing? What if there is a glitch? Oy. No thanks.
