Zobgy: Bush Approval Collapses

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

Wrong. Electronic voting should be done away with permanently. It's the devil, IMO. It's so easy to hack into the machines and it doesn't help that there is no paper trail. Add to this the fact that the federal government is requiring certain minority groups to show ID and if they don't any, they refuse to give them paper ballots, which is against the law.

Which law is that? You have to have an ID to vote - that applies to everyone not just minorities I thought all states employed that law. If they apply it only to minorities, then yes, that most likely would not pass Constitutional muster. But, it is applied to everyone at least in Georgia and Lousiana because I am a white male and I have show my ID to get the ballot.

As for electronic voting, I think it should be both. I think the ballot should be entered in a computer. Then a paper receipt should be given and one kept. That way they could tabulate the votes with greater accuracy and apaper trail could be kept for an audit.