Who would be against a paper trail for voting machines?

Factual Questions
1

Is is just a money issue? The costs of a printer and or a whole new system?
Why would anybody be against a voting machine that allows a verifiable vote count?

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2

The cynic in me says the answer to your question is:
“people who don’t want the vote count to be verifiable”

3

Well, I bet the manufacturer would love to not have to install a printer and paper handling machinery in each voting machine. It makes the whole device smaller, lighter, etc. That would let them underbid other vendors.

We should let our representatives know if a paper trail is important enough to us to pay more for.

4

Because even paper gets lost, isnt the margin of error somethign like 500,000 votes? And anyways with the Electoral College it doesnt really matter. No reason to put money into a new system

5

I’m not a statistician, but I believe that “margin of error” only applies to a survey or other sampled data. At present, we don’t elect people based on survey results, but instead on the actual election count, where a few votes here and there can and does make a difference. (And if “with the Electoral College it doesnt really matter”, then why the hullabaloo over a relatively small number of votes during the 2000 presidential election?) Finally, as to losing the paper, most of the electronic voting systems I’ve heard of propose that the paper receipts be captured in a lockbox.