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I can't speak to the particulars, but this is basically what MA and VT do. I can't see any good faith reason to do anything else. Ohio, the only other state I'

I can't speak to the particulars, but this is basically what MA and VT do. I can't see any good faith reason to do anything else. Ohio, the only other state I've voted in (many years ago) had electronic machines that produced a paper audit receipt. The problem I see with that is that now you have two sources of truth, and no easy way to count one of them to reconcile them.

jcrawfordor 6y ago
There is no two sources of truth - the paper trail (VVPAT) is the single truth. It is generally used for a sample-based audit of the machine tallies and depending on recount procedures can be used for up to a complete recount if necessary. Where VVPAT and machine tallies disagree, the VVPAT is correct.