Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, the state's top election official, on Wednesday ordered Ohio's 88 counties to use optical scan machines, which read the marks voters make on paper ballots.
The digital age has been an amazing renaissance for us. However, it is not without its drawbacks. Moving around 1's and 0's is simply too easy. Paper, on the other hand, has many archival properties, which make it a preferred medium for keeping original records - especially voting records. A lot of the data behind the discovery of the CBS forgeries on Bush's guard service, were exposed due to the analysis of the paper documents. Just the other day, a colleague showed me a picture of his family that had been digitally re-touched to make it "perfect." You can't do that with a Polaroid!
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