Paper trail needed

Paper trail needed

Posted Aug 19, 2003 1:11 UTC (Tue) by jmason (guest, #13586)
In reply to: Paper trail needed by frumious
Parent article: Bringing free software to voting booths

Having worked with touchscreens -- and their attendant calibration issues -- I can only agree. I would never trust a touchscreen system, unless it verified afterwards the candidate *it* thought I voted for ;)

The best suggestion I've heard, is for paper ballots that are more easily OCR'd. The system for voting, and counting those votes, using paper ballots has been worked out over the years and is pretty foolproof and attack-proof, compared to the computer-based systems. But where computers *could* be used to speed up and simplify the voting process, is as automated counting machines -- which can be double-checked afterwards by humans, as in present recounts.

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