Don't call for "paper trails" in voting systems. They're marginally better than no paper trails, but there is an alternative which is faster, cheaper, and more secure: optically scanned paper ballots.
Kossacks are rightly outraged that DRE touchscreen voting as it stands is still in use in American elections. I expect the majority of the voters imagine that the whole system has been gone over up and down by top military security experts to ensure that no darstadly hackers can squeeze a single vote out of the system, but those here know that the opposite is the case - that the designs of the machines are secrets from the people who buy them, who simply trust the whole sytem to report a number at the end of the day, while the analysis of the open security community finds just about every kind of vulnerablility and failure mode you can imagine. And the top people in the field will tell you that even the theoretical state of the art in purely electronic voting is a long way from offering anything like the security that paper ballots do.
If we had paper trails, we would at least have some way of knowing whether the system was cheating on the count. However, there are still countless problems with electronic voting it doesn't solve.
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