From: Ellen K. 

But again, with banking you have parties with opposing interests on the two
sides of every transaction, that provides the check and balance.

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:44:09 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message :

>We send electronic invoices to our customers, who pay them directly to the
>bank, and then we pull the data from the bank to our system, and I don't
>think even the bank has any papers of any of this money going back and
>forth. These days of cheap printers, a "paper trail" doesn't mean much
>anyway.
>
>
>Antti Kurenniemi
>(still the amount of office paper used keeps rising - what's with that?)
>
>"Ellen K." 
wrote in message
>news:6qapn0d3crv46c1hr6ths2hs4rrd0k627q{at}4ax.com...
>> Yes, there needs to be a paper trail.   That is the problem.   The
>> systems being put into use do not have a paper trail.
>>
>> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:30:37 -0500, "Geo"
 wrote in
>> message :
>>
>>>"Ellen K."
 wrote in message
>>>news:t3nnn0d3g4oghru88u6b5o7p09ebc3ha4r{at}4ax.com...
>>>> Nah, there's a huge difference:   There's a paper trail
because there's
>>>> another party on the other side of every transaction, i.e.
you deposit
>>>> your weekly paycheck, if they credit you less than the
amount, you have
>>>> your paystub and your employer has the record of how much THEIR bank
>>>> took out of their account.  Similarly if you pay a bill
electronically,
>>>> the company you paid and the other bank have records of
how much they
>>>> received.   With electronic voting it's a single-entry system.
>>>
>>>it's not a single entry system, I have one vote, I transfer that vote to
>>>the
>>>candidate of my choice. It's no different than a money transfer and there
>>>is
>>>no reason not to have a paper trail.
>>>
>>>I can do electronic banking, I can electronically file my
taxes, I can buy
>>>stuff electronically, voting is no different than any of these.
>>>
>>>Geo.
>>>
>>
>

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