[VoteRescue] NY Times LTE re: Hand-counted Paper Ballots!

[Karen Renick]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/opinion/l08vote.html?_r=1

 

January 8, 2009

Letter


  For a Paper Ballot

To the Editor:

Re "Shortchanging Voters" (editorial, Jan. 3): Like that for the nation 
as a whole, the solution for New Jersey's voting system is universal 
hand-counted paper ballots. They are cheaper, safer and more reliable 
than any electronic system, including Scantron card-counting devices.

Paper ballots are used with great success in Canada, Japan and Germany. 
Given the problems in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, ballots printed 
on recycled paper, counted in public for all to see, are the best way to 
restore public confidence in an electoral system that has been badly 
damaged by electronic devices.

Harvey Wasserman

Bexley, Ohio, Jan. 5, 2009

The writer has co-written four books on election protection and is 
senior editor of Freepress.org <http://Freepress.org>.

 

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