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Saskatchewan’s Chief Electoral officer hankers after a voting system reform, which appears already to be in the works (SP, Oct. 26). His main argument for change seems to be that what we have is over 100 years old, and for that reason it must be replaced by the new and modern.

Our present system relies on humans and their primitive tools of paper, pencil and ruler, while the new will bring us brilliant technology which will lift us from the backwoods to the bright lights of voting machines. The ballots will be scanned and tallied by machines in the blink of an eye. (There is no suggestion that there would be a paper backup to correct the many possible shortcomings of these instruments.)

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Mr. Boda does not even hint at the problems voting machines have had south of the border for more than 20 years in federal, state and municipal elections. The litany of serious mishaps by faulty machines, old or new, and glitches galore such as giving the votes of one candidate to another, have resulted in a loss of voting security.