According to a KCBS report, ballots in next November's election may need to be hand counted. Evidently, under new Federal guidelines, our current machines are no good.

The article cites Elections Director John Arntz as saying that this will cause long delays in getting results and could cost an extra million bucks.

Wow. We paid a ton of cash for those machines, now we can't use them. And are any of the ranked-choice voting positions up in the next election? We'd hate to see those have to be hand-counted. The opportunity for errors is far more likely with that extra complication.