Comments on: Calif. official votes for optical scans, hand tallies

Secretary of State tells attendees at Usenix security conference that optical scanning of paper ballots combined with hand tallies is more accurate and secure than an e-voting system that uses paper trails.

[AndrewRich]

Wonderful, California will use honest machines. Will Florida and Ohio?

[Dalkorian]

I'm struggling to remember when I *DIDN'T* use these machines in my jurisdiction (Santa Barbara County). It's been DECADES that I've been voting with these optical scan machines. I can't for the life of me understand why everyone isn't using them - except for the obvious one that they're harder to tamper with (they hold the evidence of the vote within them!). Perfect? No, there is no such thing. But I have some confidence in them, which I wouldn't using some Diebold rigged POS touch screen disaster designed to re-elect repukes. Believe me, if we were forced into those deceitful atrocities, I'd absentee vote instead and hope for the best.

[pamvv]

Great article. But more than just two states have statutory requirements for manual post-election audits of the vote tallies. See http://verifiedvoting.org/audits for details.
Unfortunately, not all the states that COULD be doing audits ARE doing audits.