Voted on my county's new paper ballot/scan system

[John1956PA]

3. The system you describe is terrific in that the scanner is at the polling site.

In Lawrence County, until about 2006, we had paper ballots (like yours) in which we darkened ovals which represented our vote choices. At the end of the day, the ballots from all of the precincts were delivered to the courthouse where they were fed into electronic readers. In or around 2006, when the Lawrence County commissioners met to consider changing to electronic voting machines which would leave no paper-ballot trail, I spoke out at a commissioner's meeting to voice my disapproval to such a changeover. Of course, the Republican-controlled commissioners' board approved the changeover to electronic machines by which the vote counts could not be audited. I am grateful for Pennsylvania's present move to voting machines which leave a paper-ballot vote trail subject to physical recounting, if deemed necessary.