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	Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail Legislation & Information
		The director shall provide for a paper record of each electronically generated ballot that can be reviewed and corrected by the voter at the time the vote is cast and used for a recount of the votes cast at an election in which electronically generated ballots were used.
		An electronic voting system shall provide a durable paper document or ballot that visually indicates the voter's selections, that the voter may use to verify the voter's choices, that may be spoiled by the voter if it fails to reflect the voter's choices and that permits the voter to cast a new ballot.
		With respect to DRE voting systems, that the paper record generated by the system be viewable by the voter before the vote is cast electronically, and that the system permit the voter to correct any discrepancy between the electronic vote and the paper record before the vote is cast.
	electionline.org /Default.aspx?tabid=290 (1689 words)

	The Paper Trail
		Even as to the client's complaints, each must be compared against the paper trail of the police report, ambulance record, hospital record, eye witness statements, even what may have been said to the tow truck operator by your plaintiff.
		The Paper Trail also extends to the records of all carriers who have paid the medical bills of your client whether payments were through hospitalization coverage, major medical or medicare.
		Without traveling the paper trail you will never know what is the heart of your case, what is its theme, how to properly present facts and do so in a manner so that which is harmful is adequately diffused and that which is helpful is most persuasively presented.
	www.maggianolaw.com /Articles/PaperTrail.htm (2237 words)

	Stone Soup Group -- Paper Trail notebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Paper Trail notebook is divided into sections that make it easy to find what is needed quickly.
		Paper Trail notebooks are available to families of children with special health care needs of any age, through Infant Learning Programs throughout the state of Alaska.
		Creation of the Paper Trail notebook would not have been possible without the generous support of the Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education and the State of Alaska, Section of Maternal, Child and Family Health.
	www.stonesoupgroup.org /papertrl.htm (393 words)

	CNN.com - Paper trail should be required for electronic votes - Sep 29, 2004
		Paper records are essential both to ensure voter confidence in electronic voting, and to safeguard against possible machine malfunctions or tampering.
		So unless a paper trail exists, voters and candidates will be left guessing whether the machine truly recorded the votes intended.
		Fourth, with a paper trail, an election could easily be audited for fraud or tampering.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/09/28/ramasastry.votingmachines (1587 words)

	VerifiedVoting.org : Senators Question E-Voting Paper Trail
		Calls for the U.S. government to mandate a voter-verified paper trail with electronic-voting machines ran into opposition Tuesday from two powerful members of a Senate committee, with one senator objecting that a printout would discriminate against blind people.
		But DRE paper trails would give voters an assurance that their votes were being counted correctly, said supporters of the technology.
		A federal requirement for paper trail ballots would drive up the cost of DREs by as much as 35 percent and could prevent states from adopting future voting technologies, she said.
	www.verifiedvoting.org /article.php?id=5796 (1184 words)

	Computerized voting lacks paper trail, scholar warns
		"Without a voter-verifiable audit trail, it is not practical to provide reasonable assurance of the integrity of these voting systems by any combination of design review, inspection, testing, logical analysis or control of the system development process," the resolution says.
		But for those racing to upgrade systems before 2004, the solution ironically requires paper: "There has to be a paper ballot where the voter can look at the ballot and check that it has the right stuff on it.
		The computer scientists and technologists are urging jurisdictions that have already purchased such voting systems to replace or modify them to produce ballots that can be checked independently by the voter before being submitted and that cannot be altered after submission.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/report/news/2003/february5/dillsr-25.html (980 words)

	Where's The Voter-verifiable Paper Trail for each ballot cast?
		When the voter verifies that his or her printout -- the permanent, unalterable paper ballot -- is correct, this restores public oversight of ballot recording.
		Unless a complete, independent audit is done (count of votes on the paper ballot printouts, and reconciliation of the computer and paper ballot tallies if needed), election results should be considered suspect due to secrecy of procedures.
		In many states, full recounts are triggered only by a "close election." The concept of a "close election" is related to paper ballot or mechanical "lever" voting systems where fraud requires a lot of work by a large number of people in a large number of polling places or the central count location.
	www.wheresthepaper.org (3125 words)

	Voting machines need paper trail
		Without a paper copy, the only way to check the voting record is to trust the computer to verify itself.
		The lack of a paper trail raises questions about the potential for fraud, accountability and trust in the electoral process.
		But George Gilbert, Guilford County's director of elections, says the case for a paper trail is overstated.
	radio.weblogs.com /0107946/stories/2003/12/01/votingMachinesNeedPaperTrail.html (817 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Rainforests hit by paper trail to UK
		Cheap paper made from cutting down Indonesian rainforest, an industry which is endangering some of the world's rarest animals, is flooding into Britain, a Guardian investigation has revealed.
		In Britain APP paper is sold either under the names APP or Sinar, or repackaged by paper merchants and sold under their brand names.
		By the time most customers get their paper it has passed through so many middlemen that they cannot be sure of its origins.
	www.guardian.co.uk /paper/story/0,10581,512632,00.html (488 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Wrong Time for an E-Vote Glitch
		The paper trail worked flawlessly, but it caught a mistake in the programming of the touch-screen machine itself.
		Charles said the machine did record the votes accurately in its memory, but failed to record them on the paper trail and on the review screen that voters examine before casting their ballot.
		On Thursday, a Senate bill that would require a voter-verified paper trail on all electronic voting machines in the state by January 2006 suffered a setback when the Assembly Appropriations Committee, where the bill resided, decided not to push the bill forward during this legislative session, which ends Aug. 31.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/081504K.shtml (1072 words)

	Paper Trail: Web architecture ideas
		Here is a proposal for a project: "Paper trail" state machine for workflow.
		The concept of a paper trail is common in conventional administration, but the model can also be applied to well-defined computer protocols.
		If making a paper trail machine was fun, here are some more ideas.
	www.w3.org /DesignIssues/PaperTrail (1526 words)

	Wired News: E-Votes Must Leave a Paper Trail
		The task force was divided between two factions: a vocal contingent that opposed a paper trail and a minority of computer and voting experts who supported the requirement.
		Proponents of a paper trail say the California decision is likely to influence other states that have been undecided about whether to require voter receipts.
		If a machine runs out of paper, he said, Sequoia would recommend that poll workers remove the entire printer component and replace it with a new one so that workers do not need to touch the receipt roll.
	www.wired.com /news/evote/0,2645,61334,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 (1393 words)

	Election observers: Georgia should provide paper trail \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Georgia's voting machines should provide a paper record and the redrawing of the state's political boundaries should be done by someone other than the elected officials who later run in those districts.
		Mark said that the observers "shied away from some of the darker charges" related to touchscreen voting, including allegations by critics that the machines can be easily rigged by corporate and political insiders bent on stealing an election.
		Cox has said she is concerned that no federal standards have been developed for paper records and that the anonymity of the ballot could be compromised by a scrolling piece of paper that records every vote cast.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/news/election/1004georgia/22monitors.html (404 words)

	Massachusettes Pulp Friction Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This would have been the second time that I rode this trail, except for last months mishap,so I was relegated to the right seat and spotting duties.
		After getting onto the trail and past the first obstacle and on upto the second obstacle,it became very clear why we said that a locker and winch are necessary for this trail, along with that, tow hooks front and rear,or a similar attachment points.
		The trail was fairly dry except for a few wet spots and the mud hole area.
	www.4x44u.com /pub/k2/am4x44u/trails/mepf (530 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Paper trail replaced with a data trail
		Each of the valve pieces move from lathes, mills, inspections and painting, once generating a paper trail that snowballed at each step.
		Often, a piece would have as many as 30 papers by the time it was bound for delivery to oilfields around the world.
		Often, this paper was messy, coated in the oil from workers' hands that moved from the heavy equipment to record measurements or notes on paper.
	www.caller2.com /1999/october/14/today/business/1495.html (901 words)

	Vote paper trail gains support \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Two lawmakers, one in the House and one in the Senate, have introduced legislation requiring that the machines be outfitted with a voter-verified paper audit trail.
		The paper record would drop into a locked box, so voters would not be able to take it with them.
		Supports of the paper record say it's necessary to make certain the machines are accurately recording votes and to quell concerns that they could be rigged to manipulate elections.
	www.ajc.com /metro/content/metro/legis05/0305/08legvoting.html (611 words)

	The Paper Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		If you're a pulp and paper company in Maine, your first phone call may be to Proserfina Bennett, managing director of The University of Maine's Pulp and Paper Process Development Center in Jenness Hall.
		The University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation raised the money to build and later expand the facility, which is one of the few in the country that simulates the production process in a modern mill, allowing researchers to efficiently and effectively test new pulp and paper recipes.
		When her presence is not required in a mill or in the lab, she writes research proposals, interviews potential student employees and keeps an eye on the center's budget.
	www.umaine.edu /research/UMTPaperTrail.htm (725 words)

	Voting Paper Trail Advocate Dies In 'Tragic Accident'
		Electronic voting machines that don't supply a paper trail go against every principle of accounting and auditing that's being taught in American business schools," he insisted.
		After voters touch the screen, a paper ballot prints out under plexiglass and once the voter compares it to his actual vote and approves it, the ballot drops into a lockbox and is issued a numbered receipt.
		As I wrote in the Free Press article, "Proponents of a paper trail were emboldened when Athan Gibbs, president and CEO of TruVote International, demonstrated a voting machine at a vendor's fair in Columbus that provides two separate voting receipts."
	www.rense.com /general50/acci.htm (635 words)

	PCWorld.com - Groups Call for E-Voting Paper Trail
		The paper copies, which voters could see after voting but would not leave the voting area, would be used for vote recounts.
		Tokaji, a former staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, says a paper trail would not have solved a problem in the California counties where voting machines malfunctioned in the March primaries.
		In the November 2003 election in Fairfax County, Virginia, about 1 percent of one candidate's votes were subtracted instead of adding to her total, and with no paper trail, there's no way to know if the problem was fully fixed, Epstein says.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,115891,00.asp (668 words)

	Election paper trail would lead to trust \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Here's how the system would work: After using the touch-screen machine and reviewing their paper ballot, voters would retain a copy as a permanent record and deposit another copy in a ballot box.
		As a spot check, some paper ballots could then be routinely hand-counted and compared to the electronic vote.
		Granted, requiring paper ballots for every machine may be unwieldy and expensive.
	www.ajc.com /opinion/content/opinion/1104/28edvote.html (741 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Electronic voters to get paper printouts by '06
		Reed announced a series of measures intended to improve trust in electronic voting machines, including the requirement that by 2006 each produce a paper trail that will allow voters to verify their ballots.
		Electronic voting machines in Washington state will be required to show voters a paper trail by 2006, Secretary of State Sam Reed said yesterday.
		Touch-screen voting machines can produce a paper record of a ballot after an election, but the planned retrofitting will allow a voter to see a printout before he or she leaves the precinct.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2001974569_voting08.html (430 words)

	IPTAblog: Paper Trail Chase
		One way to increase the accuracy and transparency of direct recording electronic voting machines may be to require a voter verifiable paper trail.
		Perhaps this merely reflects the fact that this latest survey was commissioned by Accupoll, a company that sells electronic voting machines which happen to produce a paper trail.
		Voting rights activists are less sanguine about the accuracy and reliability of "fl box" e-voting machines which lack paper trail or any kind of external audit mechanism.
	www.iptablog.org /2004/08/27/paper_trail_chase.html (412 words)

	The Papertrail - Welcome to The Paper Trail
		The Paper Trail project is a unique activity-based industrial 'exploration' centre built around an historic, fully working paper mill.
		Recycle for learning is our latest sustainability project - providing schools with new paper from their old waste paper, that we collect from them.
		Apsley Paper Trail is a registered charity dedicated to creating and maintaining The Paper Trail Project.
	www.thepapertrail.org.uk (311 words)

	Wired News: Poll: Voters Want Paper Trail
		By contrast, just 15 percent of respondents said they would support a candidate who said producing a paper audit record is an unnecessary expense and that voters can trust what they see on the voting-machine screen.
		While neither candidate has come out clearly for or against requiring a paper trail, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has said that he thinks systems should be able to trace and recount all votes.
		Despite an outcry among activists who fear that electronic voting machines are unreliable or could be tampered with, more than 48 million people, or 31 percent of registered voters, will use the machines in the November election, according to a study (PDF) by Election Data Services.
	www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,64700,00.html?tw=rss.POL (877 words)

	Bill proposes e-voting paper trail \| Tech News on ZDNet
		But those machines aren't perfect, and without a paper trail, we can't guarantee that all votes will be counted correctly," Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said.
		Called the Voting Integrity and Verification Act, the bill says states must allow the "voter to review an individual paper version of the voter's ballot before the voter's ballot is cast and counted." The paper ballot, typically viewed under glass, would become a "permanent paper record" that must be preserved in case of a recount.
		Some states and counties already require a paper ballot receipt, but there is no national standard in the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-3513_22-5571030.html (530 words)

	A Paper Trail for Voters
		What is needed is a paper record of each voter's choices that the voter can verify.
		They say that adding a paper trail will cost more and that the printers will complicate the maintenance of the machines.
		New York is way behind, as Albany's politicians prefer to direct their attention to the more pleasant question of who gets the big new contracts for voting equipment.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/1208-03.htm (669 words)

	Diebold to market paper-trail e-voting system - Computerworld
		A machine with a voter-verified paper-trail printer allows voters to review their votes on a printout after using an electronic ballot, and advocates of such printers say they would allow voters to be confident that e-voting machines recorded their votes correctly.
		Voter-verified paper trails would virtually eliminate machine error in which votes aren't counted, said Will Doherty, executive director of Verified Voting Foundation Inc. In the November 2004 election, one county in North Carolina lost more than 4,500 votes when there was a misunderstanding over the capacity of the e-voting machines used there.
		Verified Voting Foundation advocates that the printed ballots be the official record when e-voting machines with voter-verified paper trails are used.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2005/0,4814,99290,00.html (562 words)

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