Reply #38: If there are checks and balances

[zalinda]

it would work. You would have to have a print out that gave 1 copy to the voter (which he keeps) and the carbon copy is on a continuous roll. Each voters receipt should have a unique number on it, so they can go on line to check their vote. (This is the only reason that ATM's are accurate. If no one could check each of their transactions, do you think banks would be so honest?) If there is a mistake when the voter checks their unique number on line, then the carbon gets pulled out and the receipt checked against the carbon. If it matches (and it should, unless the voter is trying to pull a fast one), then hand counting of the carbon roll proceeds and the voting machine company picks up the cost for it. The only way everyone is going to be kept honest here is if there is random sampling. No one knows who will go on line to check their ballot, so they all have to be up there and be accurate. And, the SOS can't fudge the numbers because the poll book count and the on line count of voters would have to match.

zalinda