re: Louisiana elections gets a win - Ardoin cuts ties with ERIC

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When I go vote, I show my ID, I have to sign a book, and my name is recorded in a second book, at the same time. The number of votes cast should never be more than the number of names in the book / signatures in the other book.

When I vote absentee, which I have not done in many years due to the ease of early voting, I assume you have a ballot and you have a signature page... so they are recording the signatures as they come in and again, total votes should not exceed total signature pages.

What parts of voter verified paper trail are we missing?

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Your question shows how over-simplistic your thought process is. While number of votes cast being greater than names in the book would be an obvious sign of fraud (happened in may places btw), there's a TON of fraud that can exist by inserting votes for those on the rolls that do not vote.

And, that's what happened. The voter rolls were used to identify unlikely voters and votes were submitted for those people in key states.

The ERIC system was doing the opposite of cleaning up the voter rolls. It was being used to register democrat voters and giving tons of room for the injection of fraudulent voters.

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Out of curiosity, if the VVPAT option were used and a voter would find selections on the printout not matching their input what would be the recourse?

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It doesn’t look like that is the direction we are going in, but I’d imagine the commissioner would call the clerk to investigate and remedy.

I had put a lot of thought into that once upon a time. Definitely would need a way to spoil that printing on the paper.

Man, I like our electronic ballot systems. I don't want to mark a ballot by hand or with a device.

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Man, I like our electronic ballot systems

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There are some really nice things about it I admit (i.e. simplicity). The reports generated afterwards are signed by the commissioners on site. They can be used to reconcile the vote count as accessible at sos.la.gov. Whichever way we go from here, losing those reports would be a crying shame.

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I always felt that was a big reason why usually by 10-11 pm we know who won a race (unless it's really, really, really close).

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The case is being made to use machines for a quick and unofficial result. In the following 2 weeks the paper ballots can be hand counted for the official result.

In this configuration you get accuracy as well as speed.