Paper Time

By Kleinheider Posted on June 17, 2008 at 12:23 pm

Not everyone is looking forward to Tennessee’s coming switch back to paper ballots:

Although the state will pay for the new equipment Collins still considers it to be wasteful in a time when the state needs to tighten the budget.“

Even though the state is paying for it, they will be paying for it with our tax money. So basically, the taxpayers are footing the bill,” he said.

Collins defended the electronic voting saying it was accurate and a lot easier to manage.
“On election night the machine would electronically print off a tally of the votes. If the machine were to break down we could plug another one in next to it and it would read off the information,” he said.

Collins expressed concerns about the accuracy of the requirement that at least three percent of the ballots be hand counted.

“If you were to give 50 people 500 ballots each and ask each of them to count those ballots you would be amazed at how many different answers you get.”

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