I live in a county where we have had three successive recounts over a period when we moved from Opscan paper ballots to a Hart electronic w/paper ballot option at voters' request. Folks, there is no way to recount a used electron, been there done that, (I was part of each recount) didn't even get a t-shirt.
After our latest debacle, we fired our elections administrator, whose answer to voting machine problems was to go 100% e-vote, remove the paper option. In a county where 50%+ voters requested paper, we removed him instead.
Check out "Hack the Vote" Jon Stokes www.arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars As he puts it, by the nature of the beast, when an election is successfully stolen, or turned by error, there will be no way to prove it.
Excellent, Sir. Thank you. I admire your patriotism and your awareness of this issue.