Should e-votes be printed?

[pascal]

For the next election in Brazil people are not going to use the printers. What do you think?

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61654,00.html

 

[John Reynolds]

I voted all.

 

[Natoma]

e-votes should definitely be printed.

Frankly I thought that was the whole point of e-votes. You select your candidate on easy to read computer screens, and it prints out your selections for you. You get a hardcopy for yourself, and a hardcopy goes into the machine for storage and count verification.

Same paper balloting as our old school machines have, but with a better interface that is practically impenetrable to "chad" errors and the ilk.

 

[pascal]

The small boxes with embedded processors have 1 disk and two flash cards (redundance). The total time to count all hundred millions votes is less than 24 hours.

In the last election only 3% of the boxes had a printer.

Another link with details of the overall situation of previous elections:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/20/1034561357510.html