Paper ballots return to MD in '10

[javasaurus]

According to this article Maryland will again have paperless, unrecountable ballots for this election, but will return to a paper ballot system for 2010.

Better late than never, but paperless should never have happened at all.

Comments

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

gee, remaining paperless while we go through one of the most critical presidential election seasons in recent memory, yet magically paper will be ready for an interim congressional election that (I think) doesn't even involve a MD Senate seat up for grabs?

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

Return to paper? PG County was levers from at least 1976 until 2002 based on my memories. Granted levers are harder to recount in some ways (but much better in many).

I LOVE the idea of OCR technology. You can do a recount at the same time as the original (feed the documents through 2 machines in sequence and compare them.

Now, I agree with Acroyear; there is NO reason to put it off. We can't do it by the primary but doing programing of the machines and creating ballots for November is fairly simple (this IS what I do for a living, I can state that). Heck, why can't we go to the old lever machines. They are pretty secure, anonymous (WOOT!), and done correctly; solid technology.