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Someone call tech support

You remember how we went to all the bother of putting a paper trail on the electronic voting machines so that is something bad (or malicious) happened we’d always have the paper to count?

It’s a pretty sound idea, unless of course the paper doesn’t print right, or at all. (Click here for story).

One amusing bit that I didn’t put in this story: State law apparently still requires a paper-based audit, even of machines where the printers have failed. What to do? Easy: print out the data from the machine and count that. Yes, in the case where the independent paper record was not available, the elections folks counted by had the exact same thing that was counted by computer.

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