Let’s hope that every county reads this…paper ballots, paper trail the only way to assure that every vote counts.

Trust in Paper

Political experts this week were focused on how the Florida Legislature has advanced its presidential primary to a very early date: Jan. 29, 2008. But the real news, tucked into that same legislation, is that by next summer Floridians should be a lot more confident that whenever they vote, their votes will finally be counted correctly.

Florida, of course, does not have a great history on this score. First there was the trauma of the hanging chads, and everything else that went wrong, in the 2000 presidential election. Then last year, in one of the most closely contested Congressional races in the country, new touch-screen machines somehow lost 18,000 votes.