e voting

[Roy M. Silvernail]

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?