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Originally posted by bilmore
Not at all. Easiest thing in the world to throw in a command that takes every tenth or fiftieth vote for John Doe and prints it out accurately but clicks one more vote for Joe Blow in the internal tabulator instead. That form of paper trail is useless unless, for a recount, you can get everyone who voted to show up again with their printed receipt for counting.
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Perhaps then a system which prints out the ballot (which is the official ballot), which the election officials keep, and then it's scanned to calculate the totals. Seems like electronics can help deal with the problem of people who don't understand or can't read or fill out a ballot the way they wanted to -- something that tells Grandma "You voted for Buchanan, you nitwit. Are you sure you meant to do that?"
