Many voting activists believe that the only honest solution to our election systems problems is to switch to hand counted paper ballots. Colorado may make exactly this move in 2008.
At the end of 2007, Colorado decertified the optical scanners used to count paper ballots. As of a few days ago, these scanners still did not meet the requirements of state officials.
There are three places where many elections officials use computers: voter sign-in, voting, and vote counting. All of the machines involved are proprietary systems that run secret software. If we are going to use computers at all in our elections, both the hardware and the software must be open source. Otherwise, we might as well just stick to hand counted paper ballots.
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