Nevada Goes With E-Voting Paper Trail As Well
from the the-dominoes-start-falling dept
As predicted a few weeks back when California announced that they were requiring a paper trail on any e-voting machine, having such a large state do so would make other states follow suit. So, the next one up appears to be Nevada who announced today that they'll require paper receipts. However, here's where the article gets weird. They're claiming that they're the first state to do so, but that seems to ignore the California announcement from last month. The only thing that might support this claim (and this isn't clear) is that the California mandate is basically: if you use electronic voting machines, there needs to be a paper trail. The Nevada announcement appears to be: everyone must use electronic voting machines and there needs to be a paper trail. Completely off topic, but, since my experience with Nevada has been that everywhere you go there will be a slot machine, why doesn't one of these voting machine companies come up with a combined slot machine/voting machine?
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combined slot/voting machines
Because a voting machine with no paper trail is a slot machine in that you don't know what the probability is that your vote was registered correctly. The difference is that in this case the payout goes to someone else, not to you.
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