[corkoman]

The sample ballot that you bring into the booth should be your "paper record".

What the hell are you going to do with "a receipt"? If there is ANY intention that these could be used in a recount - NO WAY - that right there is a great opportunity for dimocrats to cheat.

[I got the rope]

I didn't have a sample ballot. I had some little computer card that I turned in. Why not be able to verify votes with a printed piece of paper? The vote tallies in the computer had better match the votes tallies on the printed pieces of paper, if not then there is a computer error.
As long as we have representatives from all the parties involved in the process we can keep the cheating to a minimum.
It's not perfect, but it certainly makes me feel better knowing my vote is exactly what I wanted it to be. Right now...once you turn in the little card...you don't know what's going on.