<p>cottonwood513, the machines could provide a paper printout (without any identification for yourself) for you to verify everything you’ve input is correct, which would then be deposited, by you, into a container.</p>
<p>Sorry, no, that would be against the Federal election laws. You could be coerced by someone to show it to them. Like an employer demanding it before giving you your paycheck. </p>
<p>The machine is showing you a paper printout and keeping it. Once you touch “cast ballot” you cannot go back and change it.</p>
<p>How is what I proposed much different than me filling out a scantron sheet and putting it into a machine? Heck, if the technicality is that the touchscreen machine is counting my ballot, then have it not count your ballot. Have it merely print out a pre-filled scantron which you then have the ability to verify prior to dropping it into the box.</p>
<p>You already have the ability to check and recheck your ballot over and over all you want…whether it is paper or on the touchscreen. After you put your ballot into the ballot scanner or touch “cast ballot” on the touchscreen (and wait while the touchscreen printer stores your ballot) you are done and can go home with your receipt.</p>
<p>What I’m basically saying is it would be a way of having a paper backup that can be confirmed by the voter. If the machine prints out a piece of paper with a record of your ballot, but you have no way of seeing it to verify it actually does what you told it to, then what’s even the point of having a paper trail?</p>
<p>No, RR, you do see it…page by page, on paper. And it keeps the paper.</p>
<p>Oh, in that case, fair enough! From what I thought I understood from other people it may or may not print out a receipt, which you didn’t see.</p>