Comment by Jon Slenk (General Public)

I'm a computer software professional (B.S. Math/Computer Science 1992, been working ever since) who has worked on a range of systems, both software and hardware. I know not only through theory but also extensive personal experience that all computer systems are subject to errors, from the obvious to the most subtle and hard to find. It is therefore of the utmost importance that election and voting systems provide a record/paper-trail of voter intent that explicitly does not depend on the reliability of computer systems.