Sometimes machines are not superior to simply completing an arrow with a #2 pencil. And Carol, you're right of course. There is no fail-proof system probably.

The preoccupation, though, of some folks who concentrate on the possible inaccuracy of voting methods interests me. It's as though they simply cannot accept that their POV is not the majority view when elections do not go their way. The machines must be the problem! So do away with the machines! But then those folks will generally find some other aspect of the voting apparatus that is not functioning properly. It is just incomprohensible to them that voting results are not what they think they should be so there must be a mechanical problem, or somebody must be tampering with the results.

DougR