Honestly, wouldn’t voting go a helluva lot quicker and smoother if we all just reverted to paper ballots? There no way using paper to cast your vote could be worse than what happened today in Florida:
After an hour and a half, Zarella reported he was “almost inside the door.” However, according to those coming out at that time, “it was a big mess” with “machines breaking.”
It ultimately took Zarrella 3 hours and 15 minutes to get to the head of the line. “There are two machines that actually print out the ballots,” Zarrella explained, “and both of the machines went down for a period of about 45 minutes.”
Technical problems were also noted elsewhere in Florida on Monday. In Jacksonville, some of the vote scanning machines malfunctioned, and seven out of the fifteen had to be replaced because they were rejecting ballots. At Miami Beach City Hall, it was reported that “some of the computers used to check in voters weren’t working, though there were no problems with the optical scan machines used to count ballots.”
I bet paper ballots are cheaper, too.
