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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."
I find it ironic that we are so adamant to forcibly spread our democracy to other nations when we don't have a good grasp on it ourselves.
The article didn't mention WHY paper trails don't lead to more accurate voting totals. What was more frightening, that the solution seemed to be super-secret cryptography with no paper trail. Yeah, that's the way we can guarantee accurate voting and have I got a bridge I can sell you.
My guess is that this group is somehow funded by the Diebolds of the industry (they have to be getting their money from somewhere).
I know that paper trails cannot guarantee that elections won't be corrupted, but I'm quite sure that without paper trails, any corruption will be undetectable. In this day and age where we see corruption rampant among those that would claim to lead us, we need every little bit of help we can get.