This ties in very well with my previous post.

If the only problem with using punch cards is hanging chads, wouldn’t it make more sense to stay away from computers and improve upon the puncher?

At Florida Polls, Touch Screens and Crossed Fingers

MIAMI — There will be no “hanging chads” this time around in Florida. The punch-card voting that plagued the 2000 presidential election in the state is long gone.

But with Florida’s primary on Tuesday, some in the state are bracing for more potential ballot trouble because the new electronic touch’screen machines in much of the state have aroused doubts of their own.

Florida legislators voted essentially to ban them earlier this year, after confusion in a 2006 congressional contest in Sarasota wound up in court. But the next set of machines will not be ready until the general election in November, forcing election officials to press the controversial machines back into use one more time.