What was wrong with paper?

[justinsb]

I'm sure this has been discussed here before - but with all the punch cards, touch screens etc, I still don't know what was wrong with putting an X on a piece of paper and counting the ballots by hand.

[AllegroRondo]

1. It takes too darn long

and the MSM have to have those number RIGHT NOW!!!!

[justinsb]

3. Does it take as long as

all the recounts (this year and 2000)?

[yardwork]

2. It's too accurate and inexpensive

We have to have expensive machines so that the machine-makers can make lots of money and the tallies can be messed with behind the scenes.

[Feathered Fish]

4. That's what I often wonder

but apparently it is more important for insta-results than for legible ballots.

[judy]

5. It can't be hacked or falsified as easily,

hence the passing and signing into law of the "Help America Vote (for me) Act" by Smirkenfuhrer...

[fob]

6. You know how many people you have to hire to rig an election by

stuffing ACTUAL paper ballots? bush*co's just trying to earn money to put food on his family and you want him to blow all that stolen treasury cash on thousands of stuffers?

Are you un-Amerepublikan?

/satire