Comment by gil mayers (None)

I think it is necessary to have reviewable, intact paper ballots and software independent machines. The reason for my concern is that on voting machines like Diebold the information and progamming is propietary. We can't review it even though we have paid them MILLIONS for their machines. Secondly because the optical scan records the vote on separate cards for each machine the chances of inserting a virus into the entire system with one sabotaged uploaded entry is hugh and almost undetectable. It has been shown on HBO that a plus and minus mechanism can be effectively and undetectably inserted in machine programs to skewer the votes[ a -5 for one candidate a +5 for another giving an accurate voter count but an incorrect vote count]. The bottom line is that verified eyeball counts are only possible with paper trails.