Lawmaker: No Touch-screen Voting in Iowa

The incoming leader of a key legislative committee will fight efforts toinstall “touch-screen” voting in Iowa. Representative Janet Metcalf,soon-to-be chair of the House State Government Committee, has severereservations about having Iowans cast their votes by touching boxes oncomputer screens. Metcalf says the focus should be on other technology, likeoptical scanner machines which are computers that read ballots which haveovals filled in by voters, similar to the sheets used by kids taking theIowa Test of Basic Skills.