Your method discriminates against blind voters! And those without hands or with wax allergies! And what about people who can't draw a cricle? Did you ever stop to think about them?!
Hmmm... your system works in theory, but then again so does Communism.;)
So let's say a voter doesn't understand that s/he needs to get their printed ballot from the terminal, and they leave the booth. Meanwhile, another voter enters the booth. For the sake of security, there goes two disqualified votes.
Another scenario: A voter leaves the voting station without depositing their
ballot into the box. S/He comes back in and says "I forgot to put my ballot in the box!" Sorry, your vote won't count in this election. Even if you have people standing there making sure the ballots get into the box, they're not going to catch everyone and there will still be those clueless few who don't get in their votes. Now, whether those people should be allowed to vote is up for debate, but that's a completely different discussion...
Anyway, you'd inevitably end up with discrepancies between the terminal counts and the ballot box counts. Those individual ballots that didn't get in will need to be disqualified, and depending on that number, the election could indeed be affected.
I still think the good ol' pen-and-paper checkbox (or bubble, or whatever) method is the most foolproof. We have to keep in mind that a large portion of Americans (including most of Florida's elderly population) are computer illiterate. For them, even the "simplest" electronic voting system just isn't gonna fly.
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Sorry, I just had to do it... ;)
* * * * *So let's say a voter doesn't understand that s/he needs to get their printed ballot from the terminal, and they leave the booth. Meanwhile, another voter enters the booth. For the sake of security, there goes two disqualified votes.
Another scenario: A voter leaves the voting station without depositing their ballot into the box. S/He comes back in and says "I forgot to put my ballot in the box!" Sorry, your vote won't count in this election. Even if you have people standing there making sure the ballots get into the box, they're not going to catch everyone and there will still be those clueless few who don't get in their votes. Now, whether those people should be allowed to vote is up for debate, but that's a completely different discussion...
Anyway, you'd inevitably end up with discrepancies between the terminal counts and the ballot box counts. Those individual ballots that didn't get in will need to be disqualified, and depending on that number, the election could indeed be affected.
I still think the good ol' pen-and-paper checkbox (or bubble, or whatever) method is the most foolproof. We have to keep in mind that a large portion of Americans (including most of Florida's elderly population) are computer illiterate. For them, even the "simplest" electronic voting system just isn't gonna fly.
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