Rock and a hard place

["Alan" <Alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, for everyone that attended the meetings in Boulder regarding the
Electronic Voting machines currently being considered for Boulder county
(and for others that are generally informed on the subject), what is your
favorite system?

I personally feel that some of the sales people were bold face lying in
their presentations and some were deliberately misleading in their answers
to certain questions.  There are to many security concerns and proprietary
software issues with any of the systems.  This decision is like which flavor
of mud do you like best.  If I were to choose today I believe I would still
go with Advante due to their embracing the voter verifiable paper ballot.

In many ways I am suspicious of the whole effort to use DRE's in the voting
process.  I personally feel that we should mark a paper ballot and then
place it in the "vote reader" scanner.  When the display verifies that the
ballot scan reflects the voters intentions then the ballot is transfer to
the ballot box.  That way we have a check and balances system and paper
ballots for a recount.

What are your thoughts.

Alan