Why the need for a paper trail?

Posted Aug 20, 2004 13:35 UTC (Fri) by arafel (subscriber, #18557)
In reply to: Why the need for a paper trail? by vdvo
Parent article: Will 'controlled open source' software take over election work? (NewsForge)

You've missed people forgetting their ID, particularly if it's a random string of numbers. You've also missed the fact that who you vote for is supposed to be confidential, unless you choose to tell people. Having it published in a paper doesn't sound too confidential to me. :-)

Also, unless someone takes the printed paper, and counts up the number of people listed as voting for X, and the number of people the system *said* voted for X, how do you know they match?

I'm not entirely sure why people are rushing for electronic voting anyway. What's wrong with the systems currently in use?