Does The Pcos Produce Receipts Showing The Selections The Voter Made, As An Audit Trail?
No. The thermal printer is used to print out the Election Returns and other reports. The ballots themselves are the paper audit trail. For purpose of audits or recounts, we could compare the ballots in the ballot box with the results in the ER and with the ballot images stored in the machine. The thermal paper to be used for the elections will be manufacturer guaranteed to last at least 5 years in optimum conditions. NOTE: Receipts generated by the system upon each vote, to be kept by the voter, would be against some basic aspects of Elections: voter-anonymity and vote-secrecy.
