"A Damaging Paper Chase In Voting"

Tim Ryan has written this Washington Post oped, which begins: "When early jet aircraft crashed, Congress did not mandate that all planes remain propeller-driven. But this is the kind of reactionary thinking behind two bills that would require that all voting machines used in federal elections produce a voter-verifiable paper record. These bills -- the Ballot Integrity Act (S. 1487), and the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act (H.R. 811) -- are understandable backlashes to the myriad problems encountered in the implementation of electronic voting."

Posted by Rick Hasen at September 10, 2007 08:30 AM