should we elimiate ballots?

[zorkpolitics]

Rather than eliminating ballots, I prefer to eliminate polling places.   Let everyone vote over the internet, then no matter where anyone is in the world, they could pull up their home town ballot and vote.  No more disenfranchisement of the military or overseas Americans, no long lines that discourage people, no running out of ballots, no broken voting machines.  For those without Internet acces at home or work, libraries would be available
Besides, all states could then keep their polls open 24 hrs on Election day, so there would be no early calls of East Coast states.

For all you tin-foil hat types, out-source the voting to VISA or Mastercard, since they know how to run secure transactions. 

[zorkpolitics]

1.not everyone has internet access
     Central polling places would serve for those without internet access
2.hackers can always dig into data bases and change votes
      Prove it
3.if you have several screennames, you could probably vote more than once.  Even if was linked to a serial number, there's still hackers that could find a way around it.
     States are now required to maintian statewide databases, which  should elimiante duplicate voting by cross checking addresses, SS #, etc
4.there's no paper trail to count and check the votes in case a re-count effort is needed or something.
   With everyvote counted instantly, there would never be a need for a recount