Republicans agree to need for paper trail

[jdog]

Kind of interesting that at this link I found a statement of Larimer County Republican Party Resolutions - 2004 which included the following:


http://www.lcrp.org/Resolutions-MajSuppport-2004.pdf#search='larimer%20county%20voting'


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RESOLUTION #38 – VOTING
Whereas
…
Congress recently passed the “Help America Vote Act”, and states and counties
across the country are buying electronic voting machines; and these electronic
voting machines often do not produce a verifiable, permanent record of the votes
cast:
Therefore let it be
resolved …
That the Congress amend the “Help America Vote Act” to require that all new
systems are completely open and verifiable by any interested third parties,
produce a permanent and verifiable record of the voting, but reject the notion
that it must physically be paper and paper that the voter can sight verify.
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RESOLUTION #39 – VOTING
Whereas
…
Trustworthy elections are basic to a democratic republic and require that each vote
be anonymous, secure, verifiable, and counted as intended by the voter; paperless
voting machines make proper recording and counting of votes impossible to verify;
a receipt paper on a paperless voting machine would not solve these problems
because the votes printed on the receipt can be different from the votes stored in the
machine; and accurate re-counting requires that the votes on the original paper
ballots be examined and counted, and that the results from a previous count are not
known to the people doing the recounting:
Therefore let be
resolved …
That we support procedures that allow voters to hand mark or machine mark
their votes onto full-ballot-text paper ballots, to check their votes before they
cast them, to know that the votes on the paper ballot are counted, and to have
access to proof that every ballot is accounted for and every vote correctly
understood and counted.

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Maybe I’m wrong, but doesn’t this indicate that there are at least some republicans out there who agree with our position that the lack of a paper trail makes it impossible to be certain the elections are “trustworthy” (their word)?