In our county, we mark paper ballots with low-tech felt tipped pens. Then, after we've checked the ballot to be sure it's what we intended, we feed it into a magic scanning machine which reads the ballot and keeps the paper. When the polls close, the magic machine transmits the results over phone lines to the county seat and we know the results in about fifteen minutes. The paper ballots are transported to the county seat as well so they can be counted by hand if anyone wants to do that.

This system is simple, low cost, and difficult to tamper with.

Why doesn't everyone use it?


Bev and Jerry