The NY Times offers this report. The report ends: “Experts say the optical scanners are less expensive than the touch-screen systems. But Kimball W. Brace, the president of Election Data Services, said optical scanning systems had had a slightly higher rate of voter error than touch screens.” Paul Gronke comments: “But Kim knows just as well that voter confidence is what matters at this point–and voter confidence in the all-electronic machines just isn’t there.”