Reply #37: the notion of "buying and selling votes" pales...

[grasswire]

...in comparison to the damage that electronic voting can do in just moments, with just one machine and one person willing to subvert democracy. Think about the complicated, messy task of trying to steal an election by buying the votes of a couple of thousand people, or even a couple of hundred. Somebody in that group is going to squeal, and somebody's going to prison.

But a crook can crack a voting machine and steal a goddam presidential election in moments.

A possible solution is the introduction of 3-part NCR paper ballot. Everyone knows this stuff. The pink copy goes home with the voter, the white copy goes in the ballot box, and the yellow copy goes into a lockbox held for a number of years in case there's a recount needed -- the paper trail.

NCR 3-part paper is being used for ballots in emerging democracies. Why not here?