California expected to adopt verified voting

It looks like California is finally taking the plunge on verified voting, following extensive pressure from the computing community. "Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to produce a paper printout that voters can check to make sure their votes are properly recorded", the LA Times reported yesterday.

The issues still remain of when to sample the paper trail to support any electronically-stored data, and of which is to be believed - paper or electronic - when there is a discrepancy between the two.

State Tells Counties to Establish Paper Trail on Electronic Voting (requires free registration)