[Vermonter]

An ideal system would print out a receipt with a confirmation of how the voter just entered his vote. This receipt could be deposited into a locked box at the polling place.

There would then be a hard copy available for verification or for the actual vote count if the electronic system fails

[DBrow]

So if I had the tearoff reciept I could request to see the punchcard the machine printed out for me? The card would help a recount, but if you inspect the card at the polling place and you goofed or the machine shpongled your vote, you would get it fixed before authenticating your vote.

If someone defrauded the system somewhere, being able to verify what is on any individual ballot would not be particularly useful information for a voter- it would say how you voted, and you already checked that when you pushed "Verify" or "Go" or whatever.

[GregD]

That is EXACTLY what HR2239 / S1980 will offer.

Go look and see what happened already in VA and FL, in the absence of a paper trail. I have those stories linked from the front page of www.verifiedvoting.org - Do we want this happening all over the country, for either side, in November

Help us get those bills passed into law so we don't have another meltdown in November.