“Only paper ballots should be allowed”
I agree. I don’t know why the rest of the country doesn’t use the kind of machines that Nevada uses. They are touch screens, but when you cast your vote it makes a printout of your choices that you can see (but not touch) before you make your final ok. I don’t know what the law is for sure with the paper, but I personally think that a couple precincts should be chosen at random every election and the paper ballots should be tallied at a check against the machine tally, and if there is a large discrepency between the two (presumably favoring the democrats), then that precincts votes go to the paper winner, triggering a full recount of the paper ballots state wide. If discrepencies are found in this way, then all of the people in charge of the company that made the voting machines should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
This verification can be done in states like NV where there is a paper trail, it cannot be done in states without one. I do not know if we have a random check for a precinct or two, but we should have one.
Right. I don’t know what ‘s wrong with using scan cards like we had in NC. It’s a simple to use, fill-in-the-dot form which is counted automatically and immediately at the poll, but they can always be independently recounted by hand if necessary.
Regardless of what security measures they use in “direct record” electronic systems, you’ll never have that hard evidence to verify. All you’ll ever have is what the computer tells you.