washington (state) gets a paper trail
State says e-voting machines must leave paper trail by 2006 [seattle post intelligencer, july 8, 2004]Secretary of State Sam Reed announced a series of safeguards to bolster public trust in electronic voting machines yesterday, including a requirement that by 2006, each device produce a paper trail allowing voters to verify their ballots.
at least someone’s paying attention. i did my part to promote elections after then 2000 disaster, but i still think 2004 is going to be the scariest election year ever.
