Vote, vote, vote your boat...

So I voted today. There were a number of somewhat important issues to vote on here in Colorado. There were a few important ones that I was really on the fence over, so I go back and forth as to whether I chose correctly. That said, I have to say that I had, for the first time, electric voting machines, and I rather think they sucked. Mine kept beeping at me, little blighter. The actual voting part was easy enough, but the freaking next page button wouldn't ever work. It would beep at me repeatedly until I pressed it at exactly the right pressure and for exactly the right amount of time, even though none of the actual voting touch spots had any problem whatsoever. Honestly, I think I prefer the method this county used for voting prior to this, penning in bubble sheets. Plus, I trust bubble sheets far more than I trust the electronic voting machines. I keep up with geek news enough to know that those things can be easily cracked, and it only takes one nutjob from either side to completely change thousands of votes, if not more. In the history of voting, there has always been cheating in some place or other, usually by both sides, but at least before it took a lot of effort to change results. With electronic voting, all it takes is one halfway decent hacker and a few lines of code to completely rewrite a buttload of votes all at once, seeing as how all the machines are connected. Blah.