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Name :   Ron Crane
Organization :   N/A
Post Date :   9/30/2005

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Section :  6.8
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Comment :  11. The Guidelines do not impose any kind of paper trail requirement.

Vol. I, §6.8 mentions VVPAT, but it is entirely optional. Some kind of voter-verified paper trail requirement,
preferably voter-verified paper ballot ("VVPB"), should be mandatory. Though VVPB does not remedy e-voting's many transparency and security shortcomings, it does permit voters
directly to determine whether the human-readable portion of their ballot actually reflects their choices, and it does allow for the possibility of meaningful manual recounts.