So I voted, begrudgingly I voted republican... and used for the first time the new touch screen voting machines.  I had no problem with these machines, but while waiting in line I did hear a few elderly women who seemingly cast ballots for no one. 

One woman was paging through the screens and must've hit the cast ballot button prior to actually selecting any candidates.  Others were having problems erasing votes that they accidentally picked prior to casting their ballots.

I think the bottom line here is that these new machines are not any more user friendly than previous voting methods.  We will continue to see under votes and unintended votes.. The only thing they eliminate is overvoting, or the voting for more than one candidate for a particular office.  These problems will continue while opening the door to major fraud issues.  Since there is no paper record, I cannot prove that my vote is even recorded, let alone recorded for the candidate of my choice, nor can I prove that votes that are counted are legit, because they are nothing more than bits and bytes stored on smart cards or within a voting machine.  Funny thing about bits and bytes, they can be altered and/or created with little effort.