Today’s Memphis Commercial Appeal has an article describing the county’s search for new
voting machines.
Two paragraphs caught my eye:
The big decision will be whether to pick a machine that gives
each voter a receipt, proof of how they voted as a paper trail and a backup
to the technology.Critics of these machines worry about the anonymity of each
vote.
I assume this is sloppy reporting on the part of the Commercial
Appeal. I’d hope the county is aware of some of the concerns regarding
the past alleged antics of Diebold, for example.
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1 Baylink // 29 Nov 2005 at 2:27 pm
It’s a strawman, put up to help their argument.
Paper trail machine do *not* give the *voter* a receipt; that’s a requirement to avoid vote-selling.
They keep a trail *in the machine* of the votes.
Clearly, critics of machines that produce a *voter* receipt should be worried, but there aren’t any of those, and no plans for any, except in the devious minds of the strawmen.