These machines are expensive to maintain and store and are anything but secure from fraud. Also, as we all have seen, current voting practices also are open to human error. Internet voting the kind that allows you to vote at home in your feetie pajamas is still a few years away. Technology has to catch up. However, Intranet voting the computerized system we think the state should implement is ready to be employed.
Voters have a chance to double-check their ballot before casting it.
The system is virtually tamper-proof. Best of all, computerized, Intranet voting is quite affordable, and actually would save some taxpayers big money. We say tops out, because federal funds likely are available to defray the cost to the state, and there will be savings from scrapping some of the old systems, in which local taxpayers have had to pony up money to fix and store voting machine relics. The really big savings would come in those counties that are considering purchasing newer voting technology. They, of course, could keep that money if New Jersey adopted a statewide system.