End digital voting, return to reliable and maintainable mechanical voting machines.

This is from an article in 2004.

...While new machines (click here) are not being produced, used machines are widely available, along with parts and service. As an interim measure, the Mamaroneck Town Council recently purchased three used voting machines from a company in upstate NY. These are the machines used in local town, village and school district elections.

According to the Cal Tech/MIT Voting Technology Project, the old machines work compartively well: "Paper ballots, lever machines, and optically scanned ballots have the lowest average and median residual vote rates." (Residual votes are apparent votes that don't get counted.)...

Voting machines have to be treated like a washing machine, with extended service contracts. It will remove the opportunity for hacking and foreign government interference. Machines lasted decades and with preventive maintenance after each use, they were trouble free.

This is the year 2018, GET OFF LINE for voting. The country is hooked on immediate results, it carries too much risk.

November 6, 2018

By Christina A Cassidy, Coleen Long and Michael Balsamo

Atlanta — Problem signs that arose during weeks of early voting (click here) carried into Election Day as some voters across the country faced hours-long lines, malfunctioning voting equipment and unexpectedly closed polling places.

Some of the biggest backups were in Georgia, where the governor's race was among the nation's most-watched midterm contests and was generating heavy turnout.

One voter in Gwinnett County, Ontaria Woods, waited more than three hours and said she saw about two dozen people who had come to vote leave because of the lines.

"We've been trying to tell them to wait, but people have children," Woods said. "People are getting hungry. People are tired."

The good-government group Common Cause said high turnout combined with too few voting machines, ballots and workers was causing delays....

...The local breakdowns are a symptom of a larger problem with the nation's voting infrastructure, said Lawrence Norden, a voting technology expert with the Brennan Center.

Forty-one states use computerized voting machines that are more than a decade old, and 43 states have machines that are no longer manufactured.

"It's further evidence, if any was needed, that it's long past time to modernize our voting infrastructure," Norden said. "Voters have a right to be frustrated by long lines. And they have a right to expect voting machines that work and have a paper backup."

Elsewhere, polling place confusion caused problems for voters and poll workers.

In Phoenix, a polling site was foreclosed on overnight, forcing poll workers to move it just in time for polls to open.

For about an hour after polls opened, a Sarasota County, Florida, precinct had to tell voters to come back later because their ballots were unavailable....