[Dog Gone]

As a professional systems developer, I am astonished and appalled at 'computer voting'. There is no substitute for hard copies of critical data - and I'd say that a cast vote is about as critical a datum as a free nation can have.

If banks wire money instead of sending trucks filled with currency, I think electronic votes can be managed.

[thoughtomator]

The wired money only has value because it can be backed up with paper money on demand. Any bank that wired money without being able to back it up with real cash would be in enormous trouble very quickly. Same goes with voting - unless there is a paper ballot printed with the results of the voter's input which can back up the computed tally, the machine's 'word' alone is not sufficient.

[RightWhale]

banks wire money instead of sending trucks filled with currency

If, somehow, rules of bookkeeping, accounting, auditing can be part of electronic voting, then fine. Our local system of large ballots with big black marks and lots of white space that are then scanned electronically is great. It's fast and accurate. For a recount, if anyone disputes the count the ballots can be brought out and counted by hand.