Black box voting

[ciphergoth]

SoCalDem has done a statistical analysis...on several swing states, and EVERY STATE that has Electronic Voting but no paper trails has an unexplained advantage for Bush of around +5% when comparing exit polls to actual results. In EVERY STATE that has paper audit trails on their E-Voting, the exit poll results match the actual results reported within the margin of error.

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[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I don't see a problem with machine-counted paper votes, so long as many randomly-selected bundles of the votes are re-counted by hand to ensure that the machine counts correspond to the correct counts. If those counts show substantial differences, you have to hand count the lot - so best ensure your system doesn't create the possibility of "hanging chad" ballots that your machines will miscount if you want to use them...