Only tin-foil hat-wearers, according to an article by Anne Applebaum, printed in the Columbus Dispatch today.
Applebaum says worrying that an election might be stolen due to a total lack of recountable records is as crazy as thinking, for example, "The Bush administration knew in advance [about 9/11]," or "The Bush family is protecting the Saudis." To me, that happens to translate as "not very crazy at all," but that obviously isn't how Applebaum meant it.
She compares the electronic voting situation to the use of an ATM - many of us don't always get print records at the ATM of our transation, so why would we want print records of how we vote to exist somewhere? I'd counter that print records of our ATM transactions DO exist even if we don't get a receipt - if something looks fishy on a bank statement, we can do something about it. If something looks fishy in an all-electronic election, there's nothing to be done.
Reprinted below (The Dispatch requires obnoxious registration).
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