From Radio Iowa:
An effort to require a paper trail for all votes cast at Iowa polling places is beginning to gather steam at the statehouse. Proponents say votes have disappeared from electronic voting machines elsewhere in the country and they want to prevent that from happening here by requiring a paper copy of each vote cast.
Senator Mike Connolly, a Democrat from Dubuque, is sponsoring the bill to require a paper trail. Connolly says with all the controversy around elections nationally, this is a top priority in election law this session. Currently, most Iowa counties have at least one electronic voting machine and most do not include a device for a paper backup for the vote.
Electronic voting machines are an expensive disaster and should be banned, paper trail or not.
Optical scanning of manually filled-in ballots is still probably the best way to go when it comes to a "medium tech" solution.
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