[Rich, 15:56]
Taking advantage of voting technology

I think the Accuvote optical scan system that Arlington uses is an excellent compromise between speed of counting, ease of voting, and audit trail. I believe the ballots are easy to fill in and easy for the voter to double-check before handing it in. Since physical ballots are used, recounts are meaningful. And since a computer scans the stuff in, the results for a precinct are known as soon as the polls close.

Another advantage of these machines are that they can be told to reject any ballot that has an overvote anywhere on it. This feature was finally activated in this town election. Here's hoping they keep the feature turned on.