Our country moved to electronic voting in public elections before the technology was ready, ... This center will develop the fundamental science necessary for secure, accessible, trustworthy and transparent voting.
People have jumped on the electronic voting bandwagon, thinking that will solve the problems, ... But these systems are largely untested.
The basic idea behind a paper trail is that you take one of these electronic systems and you augment it with a printer that prints out people's vote as they vote.