Dear Editor,
As of Jan. 1, all electronic voting machines will be equipped
with a
”
paper audit trail
”
which each voter can look at to check his or her vote is
recorded correctly.
Dear Editor,
As of Jan. 1, all electronic voting machines will be equipped with a “paper audit trail” which each voter can look at to check his or her vote is recorded correctly. However, the paper trail is not used in audits or recounts, so there is no real check that the audit trail and electronic votes are the same. SB 370 fixes this problem by requiring the use of the paper trail in audits and recounts. Many elections officials want to print another copy of the votes at the end of the day for audits and recounts. But the voter would never see this copy, so the audit wouldn’t really be an audit.
Everyone should call the governor’s office, 1-916-445-2841, and tell him to sign SB 370 (and AB 1636 which bans wireless connections in voting machines).
Jerry Berkman, Gilroy
