Some good news - voting paper trail may be required

it's a mystery to me why paper trails haven't been mandated all along... it goes right back to the old cold war maxim about mutual arms pacts - trust but verify...

New federal guidelines, along with legislation given a strong chance to pass in Congress next year, will probably combine to make the paperless voting machines obsolete, the officials say. States and counties that bought the machines will have to modify them to hook up printers, at federal expense, while others are planning to scrap the machines and buy new ones.

Motivated in part by voting problems during the midterm elections last month, the changes are a result of a growing skepticism among local and state election officials, federal legislators and the scientific community about the reliability and security of the paperless touch-screen machines used by about 30 percent of American voters.

the only way to insure fair and reliable voting is to insure that an accurate and comprehensive audit is possible... that's just common sense...

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