Voting machine paper backups necessary, Ensign tells panel

[NVMojo]

Republicans like to lie about Nevada's election. Over half of the population voted on machines with no paper trails.

WASHINGTON -- Just as customers can obtain receipts from automated teller machines and gasoline pumps, voters should be able to see paper confirming their votes in elections, Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., told a Senate panel on Tuesday.

Even though Congress has given states about $3 billion since 2002 to purchase new voting equipment, states still are not required to show voters hard copies of their ballots.

Ensign sees that as a flaw that must be corrected.

"There's nothing wrong -- if we're supplying the money -- to require that that money be spent in a way that requires a paper backup," Ensign told the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.

Ensign estimated the addition of paper backup would increase the cost of a new voting machine by about 25 percent.

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Jun-22-Wed-2005/news/26761368.html

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1. Perfect timing -- Ensign sounds like he's got some real integrity.

:kick:

[FogerRox]

2. Ensign has a VIVA bill -- mandates VVPR

he tried it in 2004 and 2005, he got nowhere.

This is what Tom Delay took out of HAVA before HAVA was voted on.

[LightningFlash]

3. Chris Dodd is against VVPAT...

A democrat no less.....They got to maneuver around this snake in the grass and force out a VVPB. :mad: :banghead: :banghead:

[FogerRox]

4. I thought you said Joe Liberman LOL

[WhoWantsToBeOccupied]

5. Didn't he get the GOP memo?

Honestly, if he's pushing for election integrity, I TOTALLY applaude him.

I can't believe we have sunk so low that standing up for "one vote, one vote" requires courage.