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Name :   Laura Wingerd
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Post Date :   9/29/2005

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Comment :  It is absurd that the voter-verified paper audit trail is "optional" under the proposed guidelines. It should be mandatory. A democracy is not a democracy without a permanent, hard-copy voting record that can be audited outside of the electronic systems used to automate the election.