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To: stockman_scott who wrote (7401)	2/14/2005 10:46:54 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362296

I'm not sure "paper trails" are the complete solution. What's to stop an enterprising hacker from setting up the machine to give a voter an accurate receipt but store something else in the official results? It's the old mechanical calculator trick. Send someone an itemized bill with a calculator tape attached. 99% of the folks would compare the calculator tape with the itemized invoice and see the tape ass proof the invoice added correctly, not realizing that the calculator operator just punched in a few numbers BEFORE inserting the paper. Unless you manually added it up or the discrepancy was obvious, you'd never catch on.