Jay Honeck wrote:

except that these voters' votes can be recounted if need be, since
they did leave a verifiable paper trace unlike *your* vote...

The touch screen computer printed a hard copy of my vote, which was
verified by the operator.


which model of machine were you using? are you saying that you do
not have private voting in your location and that the operator actually
get to see what each voter did? that sounds odd. From what I understand
of the touch screen machines, the thing prints out an initial tape when
booted up, that is supposed to show that no vote has been entered (but
is in fact meaningless as have been demonstrated multiple times) and then
another tape at the end of the poll that shows a tally of the votes entered
(and which of course can easily be faked as well); but no print out of
individual votes...

--Sylvain