BBV:Senator said his amendment calls for paper ballot

While people in Nevada and across the country debate whether electronic voting machines should produce a duplicate paper ballot, U.S. Sen. John Ensign said federal law already requires it.

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Ensign said Thursday that his amendment to the Equal Portection of Voting Rights Act of 2001 requires a permanent paper record be available as the official record for any vote recount. It also must give a voter the opportunity to change the ballot or correct an error before the paper record is produced.

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The minutes of the Senate hearing clearly state his intent: The purpose is to provide for a system that "permits voters to verify their vote at the time it is cast and used as the official record for recounts."

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Ensign is a Republican who was defeated by Harry Reid.

Or will they pussy out and lose the election courtesy of Diebold and ES&S?

...between the time it was proposed and the time it was voted on? What got in HAVA is not what Ensign wrote.

This is already in federal law, but the voting machine companies are claiming that because the voters can check their choices on the screen, and a printout can be made at the end of election day, that satisfies the requirement.


Amendment No. 2900 to the Equal Voting Rights Act of 2001:

The voting system shall produce a permanent paper record with a manual audit capacity for such system.

The voting system shall provide the voter with an opportunity to change the ballot or correct any error before the permanent paper record is produced.

The printed record shall be available as an official record for any recount conducted with respect to any election for Federal office in which the system is used.?

...to untwist HAVA.

Who wrote that part of the bill?