Steven Holt: “Would it not be ironic. Let me refer to what a couple of States are doing, partly because Congress has been slow to…”

“Would it not be ironic. Let me refer to what a couple of States are doing, partly because Congress has been slow to address this problem. My bill has been sitting in committee for a year now. Some States have acted on their own. I have mentioned the studies that were undertaken in California and the Secretary of State of California has decided to act and has declared that in the future the California machines must have a voter-verified paper trail. In past months, the Secretary of State of Nevada, Dean Heller, announced his decision to buy touch screen voting machines for all of Nevada's counties, and he also announced a mandated paper ballot be created through the use of a voter-verifiable record in all new DRE machines purchased in the State of Nevada in time for the 2004 general election. Said the Secretary of State, ``I did so because the voters of this State overwhelmingly supported the inclusion of a paper trail to protect the integrity of our election.'' Maybe it is time for the voters to let their county officials know how important a voter-verifiable receipt printer is to them.”