Comment by Stewart Wilber (Voter)

Ever since "HAL 6000" in Kubrick's immortal movie "2001", we have been familiar with the rogue computer which goes dangerously awry. However, not even Kubrick envisioned a situation in which our very freedoms might be threatened by the modern HAL's at our polls. This is why any and all voting systems MUST be software independent. Software is created and operated by people, working in an obscure, arcane, and exclusive realm that is inaccessible to most citizens. The opportunities for error and, worse, corruption, are both ample and very difficult to detect. Please protect our most basic democratic right, that of the secret ballot, from HAL 6000 and his sysops.