Given its history, Florida should be a leader in requiring paper trails.
In the colonies, as in the mother country, casting a vote rarely required paper and pen.
Last week, Representative Robert Wexler, a Florida Democrat, filed a federal lawsuit to require paper trails.
Mr. Holt's bill would require paper ballots to be used for every vote cast in November 2010.
One of your first acts as governor was signing a bill requiring paper receipts on electronic voting machines.
Most states have passed laws requiring paper records of every vote cast, which experts consider an important safeguard.
It is good news that Ms. Feinstein has called for the federal investigations — and that she is pushing a bill to require paper trails nationally.
In Congress, Representative Rush D. Holt, Democrat of New Jersey, has introduced a bill that would require paper trails for voting machines, and Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, has made voting machines a theme of his presidential campaign.
Other main benefits of the service, according to the authorities, are that it does not require paper proof of entitlement and that parents can use the site from their own computer or mobile phone.
