"My change of heart came while listening to an NPR story last night. Election results for one county in Michigan were held up for two hours because some volunteers with ballots were barricaded in the building by a bear. A bear! What century is this?" Meanwhile, Peter Neumann chimes in with the following : "I would not trust a computerized voting system even if I had written it myself...", which ought to have a sobering effect on the whole idea but probably won't.