I've worked several Fairfax City elections and have seen how user-friendly our equipment and efficiently Win Vote machinery functions.  As a retired IT Specialist, I was satisfied with what I observed about security within the system.  Very few users had any difficulty with the machines and the tallies were always exact.  Should a serious study of the machinery reveal weaknesses; I would recommend that those specific weaknesses be addressed the an interim period while the state finds, funds and executes a replacement product.

My observations lead me to believe that a return to paper ballots or change to another format for our polling places would introduce a real risk of many more errors in the voting processs.  For those reasons, I believe it would be more effective to take more time to complete thorough studies of the product by certified professionals.  If serious weaknesses are found;  then the process that I describe in the first paragraph could be followed.

Recommend against sudden changes for users and for voting communities without an improved solution that is logistically and financially available.  Until then, please allow communities with proven effective track records to continue to use Win Vote.