WI Bill Would Require E-Voting Paper Trail, Source

Posted by timothy on Monday August 1, 2005 @07:27AM from the small-step-for-cheeseheads dept.

AdamBLang writes "Three Wisconsin legislators announced today that they began circulating a memo for cosponsors to a bill that would require electronic voting machines to produce a paper ballot. Additionally, the new bill includes a provision that the source code must be publicly accessible. After the November 2004 elections, there were numerous reports of problems with the new paperless touch voting screens. Problems include machines subtracting or adding votes, freezing up, shutting down and skipping past races."

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Re:oh yes, this will solve all our problems... by 2old2rockNroll · 2005-08-01 08:13 · Score: 3, Interesting

Certainly corruption and misreporting on a massive scale can be avoided entirely by "backing up" an electronic process with a paper trail - because paper based voting systems are infallible!

Just ask anyone from Florida.
At least paper ballots never return a negative number.