Skeptic, I thought that you never apologized for things; that your mother made excuses for you.
On the other hand you are quite correct that the paper-and-pencil type ballot would be a nightmare for this country.
It would seem to me that a paper ballot would require very small precincts so that the ballots could be counted quickly . Since ballots in this country typically have, in addition to the various candidates for a half-dozen or so offices, a variety of referendums (referenda?) and special local issues to be considered, the opportunity for honest error -not to mention fraud- would be enormous.
I use liberal (samll "l") as a description of attitude and consider "intollerant" to be its' opposite. Liberal (large "L") is a political philosophy. The use of lower case and upper case in the proper places would certainly help to avoid confusion.

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