Should there be a revote?

[minionofmidas]

Have to agree with Al there.

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, that bit about the 99 year old reminds me of why I'm in favor of paper ballots.
As to the butterfly ballot, that's actually something of a misconception. It was pushed through by Ms. LePore (originally elected as a Republican, reelected as a Democrat) and her Republican colleague against their Democratic colleague.

[minionofmidas]

How would having a paper ballot change anything?  (Other than allow magic Democrat votes to be "found" in a box somewhere)

I STRONGLY support electronic voting.  We've used it in Memphis for 20 years and have never had any problems.

Yeah, that bit about the 99 year old reminds me of why I'm in favor of paper ballots.

If he's indeed totally out of his mind, he'd still do some random thing with the ballot paper. In that case, he has no business having his vote coutned anyways.
If he's just very feeble and somewhat confused, though, a touchscreen creates both a large danger of an overvote and of a false positive for some other candidate. A punchcard ballot creates, almost certainly, a dented chad. On a  paper ballot, though, he'll still be able to leave a clear if slightly feeble mark.