like Ireland, the Netherlands, and Germany.
To compensate, such machines are now commonly required to back up their digitized votes by printing a paper copy. But this remedy falls short.
* Only a small percentage of votes ever get audited (usually 5% or less), so it's rare that paper copies ever get consulted.
* Most voters do not verify the paper copy of their votes.
http://ballot-integrity.org/nvvotersurvey.pdf
* Many paper copies turn out to be defective.
http://tinyurl.com/26r7kd3
* Even if the paper copy exactly matches the digital copy,
both may be spurious.
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/voting/
"Protect your votes from going AWOL," says Lipscomb. "Vote in person, on election day--and with a paper ballot."
The Illinois Ballot Integrity Project is a non-partisan grassroots
organization pushing for election systems that are fully transparent,
accurate, and verified. Their homepage is http://ballot-integrity.org
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