Feds to Recommend Paper Trail for Electronic Votes

flanksteak writes "The National Institute of Standards and Technology is going to recommend the decertification of all electronic voting machines that don't create paper records. Although it sounds like this recommendation may have been in the works for a while, the recent issues in Sarasota, FL (18,000 missing votes) have brought the issue a higher profile. The most interesting comment in the story comes near the end, in which the author cites a study that said paper trails from electronic voting machines aren't all they're cracked up to be."

Comments

And this will accomplish what?

[Tweekster]

Do you think people are gonna actually keep their receipts? you can easily set it to increment one person, make the internal paper trail increment that person, and have a printed receipt for the voter that shows they voted for the other person they wanted too..
unless you round up all those receipts (well simply check the garbage on the way out of the building) the whole concept of a paper trail is just a feel good measure.

why not just dump the electronic voting all together, it is expensive, the machines suck worse than machines that are a 100 years old...

ive got an idea for the feds to do, MANDATE the style of voting ballots, no more of this psychodelic pattern of every fricking county across the US using a different style of ballot, come up with one standard that will be required for everyone to use. then implement it electronically and mechanically.