And there are about a half-dozen other States who use this system as well.

In South Carolina we go through a lengthy and secure procedure to get into the voting facility and then make our choices using a touchscreen keyboard. You can read about it at — South Carolina’s Paper-Based Voting System. Give it a look.

When you’ve made your choices you can review them onscreen and then print your ballot. The ballot has all the “little rectagular holes” which I suppose (at age 85) are the choices that you made and that the system “reads”. BUT, those choices are also PRINTED on the ballot so you can check your choices again as you did on the computer screen.

When you are satisfied that your ballot is complete and accurate as you intended, you take it to a scanner and insert it face down. The scanner tallies your ballot and then drops it into a LOCKED ballot box. Votes are then counted electronically and can be rechecked as needed (and probably are).

So it would seem (to me at least) that the South Carolina system of voting, counting and recounting ballots is very secure. Paper ballots are produced (as the President wants), voting can be done in one day (as the President wants) and a secure paper ballot is retained (as the President wants).

One more thing. Could not the system count both the “little rectangular holes” and your choices PRINTED on the ballot as a “double check” when the ballots are “read”? One would think so. And the month of October should be an “early voting period” (less Halloween, holidays and Sundays).

As always — remember to VOTE THE BASTARDS OUT!! You know who they are.