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Voting Machines Leave Paper Trail

Now it’s Tennessee’s turn with state officials saying 28 of 95 counties now have voting machines that leave a paper trail, and more are planning to buy them.Tennessee Elections Coordinator Mark Goins told a state Senate panel Tuesday the number is up from just three counties in 2010.Goins says 45% of the votes cast last year had a paper trail. Most election security experts consider a paper record as crucial to ensuring accurate vote tallies. Some are pushing for officials to toss out electronic vote-casting altogether in favor of paper ballots filled out by hand and machine-scanned.In the 2016 presidential election, 14 states used paperless voting machines.

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