US Paperless Voting Bill Advances

A couple of weeks back we discussed the effort to require voting paper trails in US federal elections. Now WhiteBoxVoter writes: "Democrats and Republicans in the US House of Representatives agreed today on a compromise that will push through a bill banning paperless voting machines and requiring a voter-verified paper record for every vote in the country, after government sanctioned hackers showed how they could break into all three of the top voting systems used in California." The NYTimes reported on Thursday that even if it passes the House, voting-machine reform that would take effect before the 2008 elections may die in the Senate.

Comments

Re:Won't someone please...

[RAMMS EIN]

Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for temporary preservation of trees deserve neither trees nor liberties!

Patent this

[Anonymous Coward]

Forget the electronic gizmos.

Use dice. It don't tax us voters too much, and probably end up picking the better (whatever that means) candidate more often. And save us a mint while at it.

Magic eight balls is also good, but I've seen pornographic versions of that, and now sure the conservatives from the bible belt will warm up to that.

Re:Why?

[Sunburnt]

plenty of folks accepted the dominant Republican talking point for the 200 recount

Wow, didn't even catch that typo with two previews.

I would like to point out that, yes, I am aware that emperor Caracalla was unelected, had already served a couple years by 200, and certainly garnered no support from any factions that might refer to themselves as "republican."