On Friday 21 November 2003 12:19, Tim May wrote: > On Nov 21, 2003, at 8:16 AM, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: > > Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as > > of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to > > produce a paper printout that voters can check to make sure their votes > > are properly recorded. > > > > http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-shelley21nov21,1,847438.story? > > coll=la-headlines-california > > Without the ability to (untraceably, unlinkably, of course) verify that > this vote is "in the vote total," and that no votes other than those > who actually voted, are in the vote total, this is all meaningless.
Quite true. But given the fact that we don't have that ability *now*, what exactly is the difference? Other than streamlining and centralizing the present distributed corruption?