Reply #5: It's all in how you define VVPAT... [View All]

VVPAT has two problems.

First is the use of the word "verifiable". Verifiable means you could verify it...if they let you. Whereas verified means you DID verify it.

Second is the terms "paper audit trail". Like I mentioned, I am an auditor by profession. I have talked to many election officials and none of them seem to know what this term really means. When I ask them which auditing standards they use...they give me blank looks. Depending on how "paper audit trail" gets defined...it might not necessarily by something that you and I would recognize as a "ballot". It's important that we use terms that tell them EXACTLY what it is we want...no room for them to redefine the terms, no wiggle room for them at all not to provide a paper ballot that the voter actually verified at the time the vote was cast as accurately reflecting who they intended to vote for. If you give them any wiggle room...they'll find a way to ensure they keep right on stealing elections out from under us.