Why don't we have paper audits on e-voting machines? It just seems like a no brainer. Why the huge push back from everyone on this? Is it a matter of money? A tedious matter of upgrading the currently sold systems? Of retooling the vast factories that are churning these things out?
Really now. Are we literally saying that we can't have a separate audit trail for the most important act of democracy?
It truly seems to be the case that the entire population of America is too clueless to be given the gift of democracy. Our elected representatives are simply powerless to spend sufficient funds and hire qualified security experts who otherwise would be able to make short work of this entire e-voting problem. Something so trivially fixed is resisted with all the bureaucratic might of the passive aggressive legions of zombies at their control and we are powerless to stop them.
You'd think that people were asking to overhaul the tax code or privatize social security or something.
Geesh. What monumental morons.
The paper trails already exist. Sequoia (I think) had them for Nevada, and they're standard issue on the Hart machines, IIRC.
In other words, people resisting it are full of shit somewhere. Trust, but verify.
It just boggles my mind.