Reply #24: I just had an epiphany while reading your report. [View All]

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There is no reason these machines can't work like a cash register. The only difference is the currency are votes instead of cash or credit cards. This means there would be paper, numbered receipts for the voters with a duplicate for the registrar's record, a journal tape and an audit tape, which summarizes the votes. These could be physically "balanced" against each other in each precinct before being forward to the registrar.

In a large corporation like K-Mart, the verified paper work would go through various stages, register, department, store and eventually headquarters and the totals are verified at each stage. (This is not as daunting as it seems.) Maybe the Secretaries of States, where there are questionable returns, should investigate the companies that do supermarket registers. They all use paper and lots of it. Do you think Albertsons or Ralphs would rely on a single entry totals for their receipts?