I don't have a problem with a paper output from voting machines. I don't want manipulation from any source, and an auditable paper trail would aid in reducing opportunities for fraud. We had a real fiasco here in San Diego with the Diebold machines, and it showed me how easy it would be to rig an election with some of these machines. I don't subscribe to any of the black helicopter theories about Diebold purposely steering votes to the Republicans. I think incompetence, corruption, and stupidity is more than enough to explain how lousy their machines are.
I'm also in favor of requiring ID to vote. The opponents of that are either demagogues or people who want to keep some fraudulent scheme going.
I have NO PROBLEM with getting a "receipt" from the machine, but to imply as the New York times does that the real threat to the integrity of our elections is the machines and not fake voters is quites simply not true.