California election to provide e-voting paper trail

05.06.2006

"I think it's clear that paper trails are the absolute minimum requirement for valid and accountable elections at this point," he said.

California state Sen. Debra Bowen, a Democrat who is running in a primary election for the right to take on McPherson, a Republican, for the secretary of state post, agreed that the new audit requirements remain inadequate. For example, some counties aren't including absentee ballots in the manual vote requirement, which she called a "huge loophole."