Judge Robert Rosenberg searches for dangling chad after last year's Florida ballot fiasco. This nonsense would be history under computerized voting. This state needs an elections upgrade. And a new way of conducting elections ought to be uniform statewide, easy to use, cost effective, painfully accurate and insulated from fraud. It's a tall order to achieve all of these objectives, but it certainly is possible and affordable.
Computerized voting is the answer.
A host of companies have introduced computerized voting systems to the market. In fact, a new computerized voting system would reduce the financial burden some counties already are facing. Most of the county's voting machines are more than 40 years old, according to Richard Wooster, the county's superintendent of elections. In fact, the particular machines the county uses haven't even been manufactured since 1971. Downtime also is an issue.