Comment by David C. Buckle (Academic)

Trust of the Verification System for voting must be wide spread and in order to establish this the voting citiizens must be confident of indepence of Software for that verification. At this time in our history where so much software is so imperfect and complicated beyond requirements , ususally due to inadeguate testing and insufficient transparency to programmers, that it is impossible to verify its functionality. This Requires, in my mind, that there be maintained Paper records of the vote taken. There are currently in use such systems in the state of Virginia, and others that use such a marked ballot which is then scanned and counted electronicly. A version which could produce a copy for a voter to verify, at the time of voting, and then insert it into a scanner would be more expensive but would give both simplicity for voting and a dual counting system as well as the verifiable hard copy. Let us not generate more mistrust and anger in our election, but work to make it the best in the world.