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Tuesday, November 05, 2002

Few problems reported in states with high-tech voting systems; `It's great,' one voter raves

[...] The biggest general election debut for touchscreen machines was in Georgia, where some 19,000 were deployed across the state and voters offered good reviews.

One voter, Tracy Yandle of Atlanta, said it was "as easy as using an ATM."

"It's great. I've been voting for a lot more years than I care to say," Joe Penley of Barnesville raved. "It's almost too simple. My 4-year-old granddaughter could do it. It's hard to make errors if you just follow instructions." [...]

Democrats, however, derided the complexity of the process, and noted that large blocs of potential Democratic voters would be disenfranchised by having to follow instructions or have the mental abilities of a 4-year-old. "It's obvious the whole process is slanted toward the moderately intelligent and the Republic insistence on mindlessly following instructions," said one miffed partisan.

posted by Terry at 10:20:00 AM

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