The Salt Lake Tribune offers this report on the difficulty of conducting recounts on Utah’s voting machines, which generate a contemporaneous paper record (or “voter verified paper audit trail”) of the electronic vote. The problem, according to the article, is determining “exactly how to recount votes, which are recorded electronically and also printed on yards-long paper backups, which resemble cash-register tape.” It also reports on the legal issues surrounding Utah’s lack of uniform standards for conducting recounts. According to Thad Hall of the University of Utah: “The Help America Vote Act requires that all states have uniform standards of what constitutes a vote …. The state should be providing uniform standards – that is their job, and that is what HAVA is about. If counties get to choose how it is done, the state is very likely going to get sued.”