Steven Holt: “under this legislation, the States and counties still have the responsibility for the mechanics of the elections. All…”

“under this legislation, the States and counties still have the responsibility for the mechanics of the elections. All we're saying is, if they put in place procedures to make them auditable, and procedures to audit the votes, we will assist them in the cost. There are many things the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King) said we could be dealing with, and, indeed, we are not dealing with questions of registration and purging of names on registration lists and absentee voting and the openness of the tabulation phase of results. We are just talking about what happens in the voting booth, so that each voter will be able to verify, on paper, that her vote or his vote is recorded the way they intended, and then, those voter verified records be used to audit the results. It's that simple. I can promise you that if jurisdictions don't take these steps, there will be many questions around the country that cannot be resolved. This is a simple, straightforward way to take care of it.”