Voting In Florida: BACKUP!

I have worked for an accounting firm, a catalog order company, and a Psycologists office. One thing they all had in common, Computers. Another thing they all had in common, a backup system. In each of those cases if our cumputers went down we still had a way to retrieve records and/or continue to do business without the computers. My ex-wife works in a hospital as a nurse and though much of the charting is computerized, there is still a paper backup system. Why then has the state of Florida steadfastly refused to initiate a paper receipt backup for the new touchscreen voting system in the event of a need for a recount? It is insane to think that the order of some trinket is important enough to warrant a paper backup system but our votes do not. It would also seem that after the debacle in the 2000 election (more on this in a future post) in this state over recounts that the governor and the government would go FAR out of the way to remove doubt, reduce error and increase veracity and accuracy. The state should be doing all they can to instill trust and confidence in the new system. Instead, the governor's steadfast refusal to add a paper trail gives many (myself of course included) a feeling of uneasiness about the new system. Jeb, Give us our paper trail. Make this system as safe and as verifiable as possible. PLEASE!