Comment by Barbara Ulman (Voter)

Electronic voting is not safe from failing computer systems, hackers, or other criminal elements. Voting must have a paper trail: it must be software independent. We have read about voting fraud in other countries. Now, it appears that the U.S. is not immune to this. Optically scanned paper ballots are reliable and efficient. The idea of using unreliable software for voting is terrible. We are supposed to be able to vote in this country, and to have the vote we actually cast be the one that is recorded. The only way for this to be true is to cast paper ballots!