Reply #6: We don't need recipts. We need Voter Verified Paper Ballots that

[SharonAnn]

are kept at the voting location in a Ballot Box and can be recounted.

We also need Robust Auditing Procedures to tally the ballots in some precincts and compare them to the machine count. Any differences should then trigger a complete recount for that election.

Receipts have no legal standing. Paper that the voter takes with them are useless. The ballots have to printed, verified by the voter, and retained at the poll location.

A device that prints out your choices on a paper BALLOT, visible under a plastic cover, could be part of an electronic setup. The voter verifies that what is printed is what they wanted, they press a YES button, then the ballot is fed into the ballot box. If the voter denies that the ballot representst what they wanted, they press a NO button and the device feeds the paper ballot into a rejected ballot box.

There are several ways to solve the issue. The key is that the voter has to be able to verify a tangible ballot and there has to be a way to audit the process. Obviously, laws have to exist to define the auditing and recount procedures that allow actual auditing and recounting. Not Katherine Harris type recounting.