Reply #2: voting is easy and fun

[el dusto]

I used one of the aforementioned machines to vote on Tuesday, and it seemed like a pretty slick operation - filling out ballots is not the most complicated thing in the world, and I must have done it right, because the machine beeped and said "vote counted," or something to that effect. No "wrinkles" at all.

Unless the machine shredded the ballot (which i doubt; it's a pretty big machine, I suspect for purposes of paper-tray), this is an awesome way to count votes: electronic counting of paper ballots with the commensurate paper trail that can be easily followed... the ballots were identical to the old ones, except these were counted by machine instead of by hand, and these ballots could just as easily be recounted by hand.

The voter ID thing is hardly a "wrinkle," unless you're Scott McClellan and trying to rig the polls. It's so easy to vote in ND, the least you can do is identify yourself to the satisfaction of the officials.

Now, if only the candidates I'd voted for had won...