Apparently no one in Hattiesburg Mississippi ever looked up office supply advice before their elections each. The Forrest County Board of Supervisors has voted for and is currently awaiting Dept. of Justice approval before removing the printers from their electoral process.

Well, kind of. In reality they would still use the printers but only to generate a virtual document for each vote cast. In the real system every voter votes and that vote is immediately converted into a hard copy, locally, so that if election results are contested there are records which can prove who voted for what. Electronic copies are usually not trusted, as one good hacker could change everything.

However, this district and about twenty others have been having so much trouble adding paper, refilling ink, and basically doing normal office supply stuff during elections that they want to ditch the hard copies for virtual hard copies. There is of course some resistance to the idea. One member, by the name of Woullard, went so far as to vote against the otherwise unanimous statement, bringing up the concerns of local and state NAACP members as well as the ease of tampering and diminished lack of security and control inherent with electronic information.

Another point to bring up involves the comfort and security of the voter themselves. Although the USA is a highly technical state, there is still a huge percentage that do not own a computer and who might very well have concerns about the new system upholding their rights (especially in rural Mississippi).

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