The jokes always used to be about Chicago, but now you can pretty-much ridicule anyone who uses electronic voting systems without a paper-trail. I guess it would be funny, that is, if it was not so sad. This just in from Florida, of all places:

Several South Florida voters say the choices they touched on the electronic screens were not the ones that appeared on the review screen — the final voting step.

Election officials say they aren’t aware of any serious voting issues. But in Broward County, for example, they don’t know how widespread the machine problems are because there’s no process for poll workers to quickly report minor issues and no central database of machine problems.

In Miami-Dade, incidents are logged and reported daily and recorded in a central database. Problem machines are shut down.

”In the past, Miami-Dade County would send someone to correct the machine on site,” said Lester Sola, county supervisor of elections. Now, he said, “We close the machine down and put a seal on it.”

I like that. Someone would come and “correct” the machine on site. “Hey, this thing shows Gore is winning. Well, we’ll just have to see about that…”