Reply #65: You're right, a paper trail won't do it alone. You have to have [View All]

[Stevepol]

a required audit, and of course the paper ballot has to be "voter-verified"; that is, the voter has to verify the paper ballot contains his vote before it is dropped in the box for storage. Then, there has to be an audit that hand counts enough of the machine counted precincts to insure that the paper and the machine count match. That's the problem with the optical scanners: nobody audits or recounts unless there's a problem. This is what happened in MN I suspect in 02 when Mondale lost. I could be wrong, but I didn't read anything about a recount or audit in MN, which would likely have found that the ES&S scanners were overcounting the Repub and/or undercounting Mondale.