EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Katherine Scott
Organization : | 300 Committee
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8
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Comment : | Regarding a paper audit trail: It is absolutely crucial to the integrity and fairness of our electoral process that there be a verifiable paper trail of all ballots. It really would be best to use paper ballots. I am against any form of electronic voting. There is too much latitude for fraud, as we have seen. There is latitude for fraud in all forms of balloting, but with paper ballots humans can check out the results. It is a trail to follow. Electronic voting machines are a recipe for the loss of democracy and the loss of confidence in democracy in this country. This has already occurred, and for this reason alone we must return to paper ballots.