Do Americans trust their Voting System?

I just read an article by Miller-McCune about Americans and their voting system. Do we trust are voting system? The article talked about how there have been many problems at the polls in the past two elections and there is already some glitches in the early voting this year. A study was taken in July of 2008 in The Journal of Politics asking the question, Are Americans Confident Their Ballots Are Counted? They used a survey to help them in their study and the results were amazing. Sixty-nine percent of whites said that they were very confident that their votes were being counted. Only 30 percent of African-Americans reported that they were very confident that they were very confident. 8.5 percent of whites and 32 percent of african-americans said they were not confident their votes were being counted. That is surprising to me how different the percentages are between african-americans and whites. The article goes on to ask why do blacks feel less confident about their votes than whites? They believe it is because of the history of treating african-americans badly that makes them less confident. It even says that Democrats are less confident about their votes because of the polls in the past two elections. If Barack Obama wins, they believe that the confidence in African-Amercian and Democrat voters will go up. They want people to be confident in how they choose their leaders. Personally, if I was a voter I would be not be very confident about my vote because of all the flaws and glitches that have happened in the past two elections. Maybe, when I am able to vote I will have full confidence because they will have stopped all the poll problems.