On Friday 21 November 2003 12:19, Tim May wrote:
On Nov 21, 2003, at 8:16 AM, Major Variola (ret.) wrote:
Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to produce a paper printout that voters can check to make sure their votes are properly recorded.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-shelley21nov21,1,847438.story? coll=la-headlines-california
Without the ability to (untraceably, unlinkably, of course) verify that this vote is "in the vote total," and that no votes other than those who actually voted, are in the vote total, this is all meaningless.
Quite true. But given the fact that we don't have that ability *now*, what exactly is the difference? Other than streamlining and centralizing the present distributed corruption?