Unbelievable! Venezuela's election used touch screen voting machines that produce a paper trail, and they're using them to check the disputed recall vote. Jimmy Carter's on the case. Tell me again why we can't do this in the US?
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The referendum was carried out on touch-screen voting machines, which produced a paper receipt of each vote, much like an ATM. Voters then deposited the receipts into a ballot box. Amid charges that the electronic machines were rigged, the monitors will be checking the results from the machines against the paper ballots to make sure there are no major discrepancies. The paper ballots will be checked at election offices while votes recorded in the machines will be examined at an army base.
Mr. Carter made clear that the opposition won't have a leg to stand on if they keep crying foul after the audit, which he said should be completed by Thursday.
“It should be sufficient to address the remaining concerns that have been expressed by the opposition,” Mr. Carter said at the nationally broadcast news conference.
Found this article in the Globe & Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040818.wvenez0818/BNStory/International/ via corrente blog