@qqwerf I think you're focusing too much on "computer voodoo". When it comes to physical votes, there are literally nothing that can trace where they go, or what gets counted, outside of physical means (ex. video recorders, guards, etc). If electronics were not a safer means, then why are all of the major financial companies going to electronic-only methods for transferring money? What is happening with checks? What should be focused on more is who handles these machines, and what measures are taken when something like what happened in this video occurs. But, I understand that you wanted to give a nice argument. However, in this corrupt world, any method can be easily manipulated. I just see physical means as obsolete, and simply a burden for our modern time.

The number of people who actually try to forge votes is typically in the single digits. Electronic machines means you have untraceable, easily modified votes which can't simply be collected again and recounted. It's extremely easy to tamper with the numbers or the votes themselves at any stage, in a way that makes the real votes impossible to recover. That is a much bigger threat because literally millions of votes can be modified at once. And oh hey, guess what? Romney has financial links to one of the big voting machine companies. Good thing there's no conflict of interest there!!!

The switch to electronics was an attempt to get away from allowing people to forge your physical vote. I don't think going back to that method would help at all.

old fashioned pen and paper does the job just fine

lol why am I not surprised.

And the US government is concerned that not enough US citizens are voting. I wonder why, hmm...

America in a nutshell

I had literally just posted this on my facebook but had a friend of mine dismiss it like it's nothing. Honestly, it's not nothing. If you read the entire article, on that machine, the person had to find a very tiny sliver to vote for Obama. Yea, it's probably faulty hardware, but it doesn't matter if it's the hardware or if it's fraud; it's unacceptable.