All the people who live on houseboats where I do were sent to Marin City to vote, which was kind of interesting because it's a low-income area full of the people who normally get disenfranchised. As far as I could tell, though, no overt disenfranchisement occurred.
The ballot system was one I'd never seen before. You marked your votes in bubbles on a giant piece of cardstock with a black felt-tip pen. (I had unpleasant flashbacks to the MBE, but persevered and kept voting anyway...) Then you placed the ballot in a "secrecy folder" to obscure your selections as the ballot was fed into this large machine about the size of a small refrigerator.
In theory, this was a good system: the large refrigerator thing was clearly scanning the ballots, so there would be the instantaneous results afforded by electronic voting, with the added safety of the paper trail left by the original ballots. On the other hand, I have concerns about the bubble-filling, as people without fine motor control might not be able to make them sufficiently clearly. I'm not sure how this system handles ballots it can't easily read - do they get counted by hand later? And if so, according to Bush v. Gore, is that legal? (One of the perplexing results of that case was the apparent rule that votes could not be counted differently than other votes. Exactly what that might mean in the context of any other election remains to be litigated.)
Still, this system was easier to use than the butterfly ballots, and blurry ballots may be no more problematic than hanging chads were. Of course what I really miss are those great big black voting booths. I remember being a very little girl (maybe three?) and walking up the street with my parents to the elementary school I could only aspire to one day attending and helping them pull the levers. It was fun, at least up until you pressed the red lever to pull open the curtain and reset all the levers when you were ready to leave. I found it kind of loud and scary, although not nearly as scary as not having people's votes counted...