David Price: “No matter whether we are talking about a malfunction intended by no one or something much more mischievous or…”

“No matter whether we are talking about a malfunction intended by no one or something much more mischievous or fraudulent, a system like there where you have no way of checking, no back-up system, simply leads people to suspect the worst. And so it would appear to me that we would want to offer maximum assurance. As I said earlier, to move from these punch card systems which were so inaccurate and so problematic to move to high-tech electronic systems with all these bells and whistles which nonetheless have no basic capability to offer a back-up check, that would not seem to be the way we ought to be moving in election reform. Some of these low-tech alternatives might be better for the present.”