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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (31822)	11/21/2003 6:33:40 PM
From: laura_bush	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

State Tells Counties to Establish Paper Trail on Electronic Voting By Allison Hoffman and Tim Reiterman Times Staff Writers November 21, 2003 Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to produce a paper printout that voters can check to make sure their votes are properly recorded. Late Thursday evening, Shelley placed calls to county elections officials around the state to tell them that any voting system that is currently in use or that is purchased before Jan. 1, 2006, must be modified or replaced to produce a paper trail. After that date, no county will be allowed to buy machines that can't make printouts. None of the electronic voting systems currently in use in the state can make such a record. Voters who cast ballots using touch-screens, the most common type of electronic voting machine, are prompted to review their choices on a confirmation screen, but they have no way of knowing that those selections are recorded correctly in the microchip "ballot box." Continues..... latimes.com