"Paper trail? We don't need no stinking paper trail..."

There's a lot of worry in the US at the moment about electronic voting machines. Doubts about their security and suspicion of their opaqueness has led many states to pass laws demanding that they produce a paper "audit trail" - effectively a receipt which can be checked by the voter, then deposited in a ballot box, allowing for recounts. The big exception to this trend is Florida, where Republican legislators are instead considering banning any such receipts, and forbidding any recounts of votes cast electronicly.

They must be really confident that the machines will give the "right" result...