Mr. LEWIS: All presume that somehow paper is magically better than electronics when we know that voting on paper, the voters continue to make far more mistakes than they do any other way.
Should they fail to do this, the government has the right to convert into voting shares the paper it took in return for its injection of public funds into the banking system a couple of years ago.
For this year's general election, Nevada is the only state where virtually every voting machine has a paper backup that could aid in a machine malfunction, an audit or a recount.
New Jersey is only the most recent battleground in the war between paper and electronic voting machines.
In fact, many officials think touch-screen voting is more reliable than paper, which can be lost or damaged.
So on Feb. 5, his county, like many others in California and elsewhere, is reluctantly abandoning electronic voting machines and returning to paper.
When America goes to the polls in November, every voter in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana will use the same direct response electronic (DRE) voting machines that lack any paper backup and have been shown again and again to suffer from security flaws, according to polling place data gathered by the non-profit VerifiedVoting.org.
Earlier this year, on Capitol Hill, it looked like legislation to require paper ballots for all voting equipment was on the fast track.
Warren Stewart is with Verified Voting, a group pushing for paper ballots.
Holt has been trying for years to get a bill passed that would require some form of paper ballots on all voting machines.
This has boosted efforts in Congress to require paper backups on electronic voting equipment, but some experts think that will only further complicate elections.
The congressman already has more than half of his House colleagues as cosponsors for his bill to require paper backups on electronic voting machines.
In New Jersey, for instance, polling places couldn't meet a 2008 deadline to add a paper trail to their voting machines, so the deadline was extended until 2009--after the election.
"Without a paper trail attached to a voting machine today, I think any election would be suspect, " Heller says.
This, the Gould report pointed out, enabled the SNP to appear at the top of all but one regional list in the elections, which saw a new ballot paper design and a new voting system for the council seats.
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As president, I will require that all voting machines, including electronic ones, use paper ballots that can be verified by voters.
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It refuses, too, to count paper ballots as a check on controversial voting machines.
Some of the vote count was delayed on primary day as voters in Myrtle Beach reported malfunctioning electronic voting machines, and some were forced to use paper ballots.
The bill requires counties to abandon voting systems that use punch cards, mechanical levers or paper ballots.
The elections saw the introduction of a new design of ballot paper for the parliament vote and a new voting system for the council seats.
The conclusion, which Dr Ferguson reports in a paper in Psychological Science, was that participants' voting intentions were, indeed, affected by seeing the flag.
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The vote also bans other counties in California from introducing new ATM-like electronic voting equipment in November, unless the machines include a verified paper trail of votes cast.
The resolution approving the Parliament's position on the green paper was approved by 456 votes to 50 at the voting session on 25 February 2010.
The meeting revealed that electronic voting would continue - following its successful introduction - but that alternative paper ballots would also remain for the immediate future.
At least five different voting technologies will be used November 2: electronic machines, lever machines, paper ballots, optical scanners, and punch cards.
In Pittsburgh's Hill District, African-American voters expressed suspicion about the paper ballots they were offered when glitches developed in their electronic-voting machines.
Online voters even have the option to re-vote with a paper ballot in the event that hurried or pressured decisions were made from their remote voting locations.
In December, the county was directed by Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to scrap its touch-screen voting system, which had been plagued with problems, and to replace it with optically scanned paper ballots.
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