Reply #9: No.

[TahitiNut]

A paper record that offers an opportunity for a manual audit or recount is appropriate. A 'receipt' that indicates for whom one voted is nothing but an invitation to "votes for sale" or extortion.

I personally have little problem with optical scanning IF AND ONLY IF there's a manual audit of a STATISTICALLY VALID sample of the optically-scanned paper ballots that affords a 98% level of confidence that there tally is materially accurate. (The sampling method and the term 'materially accurate' are technical - too technical to get into here.) When/if the REQUIRED audit does not provide that assurance, a complete recount should be MANDATED without the need for any candidate to either file a formal challenge or pay for it.