Originally Posted By: DWallach
And one other thing, in response to wfaulk: surely the answer must be to attach paper printout gadgets to electronic voting machines, right?

Sadly, no. I was one of the big proponents of this idea until I saw the results of human subject experiments. The punch line: 63% of test voters failed to notice deliberately inserted errors on the summary screen. (And the test subjects just loved using our evil, lying machine!)


How about this: Have the machine print out a paper ballot that lists only the selected candidates, but then require the voter to manually mark that ballot for each candidate. I don't know that that would work, but it seems like a reasonable idea to study.
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Bitt Faulk