...at least make them
tamper-proof.
A top House Democrat from Montgomery County introduced a bill yesterday that would require paper records to back up every vote cast in the state. Maryland, one of the first states to buy touch-screen machines after the disputed presidential election in 2000, would have to retrofit them to produce a paper trail or return to optical-scan ballots where voters mark the choices on paper
As for Congress, why not a federal elections law?
Advocates for a paper trail were buoyed by last month's recommendations of a federal panel that advises the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Officials with the National Institute of Standards and Technology said paperless voting machines cannot be made secure and advised election officials to endorse optical-scan systems or require electronic systems to print a paper summary of voting.
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