[EM] HR811 and Federal paper trail legislation

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

At 07:32 PM 5/22/2007, Kathy Dopp wrote:
>  Unfortunately BlackBoxVoting (whose
>income is almost $1 Mill/year to continue the fight vs. election
>problems) faxed thousands of election officials and urged them to
>fight against the bill.
>
>The bill is GREAT because it:
>
>1. gets rid of all paperless DREs immediately

The editorial claims that compliance would be impossible within the 
time limits; however, if I am correct, a simple paper ballot, which 
could be hand-counted, though it is inconceivable to me that a system 
to machine count such couldn't be put together quickly, would satisfy 
the requirements. Of course, the people selling the machines will be 
less than thrilled.

The whole voting machine thing just boggles my mind. Didn't anyone 
ever do a return-on-investment analysis to compare using these 
machines with hand counting?