University of Virginia professor Bryan Pfaffenberger sounds an important warning about the current neo-Luddite attack on modern voting technologies:

The paper ballot is making a comeback. Across America, election
officials are ending their experiment with electronic touch-screen
voting machines – a failure in the view of most experts –
and replacing them with computerized tallying of paper ballots.

Some want to push the machines out entirely. To restore public
confidence, they say, let’s count the ballots by hand and allow
citizens to observe and videotape the process.

But wait a minute. Today, fewer than 1 percent of America’s
votes are counted by hand. If hand counting is so great, why did we
give it up?

History gives a clear answer and a sharp warning: We gave up hand-counted paper ballots (HCPBs) for good reason ? and resuming their use might be a very bad idea.

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