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<p>Alex Knapp <a href="http://www.hereticalideas.com/archives/001882.html" title="Still More Problems with E-Voting">is not at all impressed with the spread of touchscreen voting</a> and thinks it will ultimately create more problems than it solves; I generally agree, especially given the less expensive and superior alternative: optical mark recognition (OMR) machines, which are essentially glorified Scantron machines that read ink circles instead of pencil marks. Put an <span class="caps">OMR</span> scanner or two in each precinct, and the only other equipment you need are some pens and the proper machine-readable paper ballots. Not to mention that the audit trail is trivial: all you need to do is hang on to the ballots after they&rsquo;re scanned.</p> http://blog.lordsutch.com/archives/1548 http://blog.lordsutch.com/atom.cgi/entryid=1548