Comment by Christina Wadsworth (Voter)

All computer systems are subject to error. And computer systems can malfunction or be deliberately corrupted at any stage of their design, manufacture, and use. The methods used to do this can be extremely difficult to foresee and detect. Anybody who has an email account has received enough spam to know this is true. Therefore, it is crucial to the integrity of elections and the confidence of the voters that voting systems provide a means of recording and recovering voter intent that does not depend on the reliability of software.