Paper Trails Don't Ensure Accurate E-Voting Totals

An anonymous reader writes "In an new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation they say that paper trails increase costs and can actually reduce the chances a voters' choices are accurately counted. Congress is considering a 'Voter Confidence and Increased Accountability Act of 2007,' which would mandate 'voter-verified' paper audit trails."

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Paper vote results are "black and white"

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According to the provocative and highly enlightening documentary Orwell Rolls in His Grave, there's a switch on voting machines that either accepts, then discounts an incorrectly filled-out ballot, or spits the spoiled ballot back out so you can vote again. Apparently, in some areas heavily populated with blacks, the wrong ballots were received and not returned. In predominantly white districts, the incorrect ballot was spit back out so they could vote again.

So yeah, paper votes can be and have been manipulated big time.