This, by the way, is stupid. The machines should have a paper trail.
I would guess that the people "buying" the machines wrote the specs.
Can't we all just get along....lol
A paper receipt will indefinetly lead to vote buying, most probably from Democrats going up to homeless bums. Plus, just because you get a receipt doesn't mean the computer inside isnt registering it differently. If the receipt goes to a secret box that the voter doesnt have access to then the machine can just change that as well. To actually defeat the machine you would have to give the voter a reciept, have them check that its accurate, and then have them walk to a drop off box to drop it off. Of course, all this would lead to is a bunch of dumb voters leaving their reciept behind or taking it home with them, then when the reciepts were counted (by democrats who lose an election) they would show a discrepancy in the machine vote, leading to the possibily of a revote or some other such nonsense.
Is there anyway to make a paper trail system work the way its intended to, that is, to assure that the machine is not rigged to give one candidate an advantage?
Paper is probably the best reliable way, its just too bad that Democrats are too stupid to figure it out.
Here in CT, we have neither. We have non-electronic machines, where you have to flip a switch for your candidate and then pull a level to count it. I have absolutely no idea what happens to the vote from there, but it seems to work.