[bediger4000]

No. Diebold machines were quite different. What Mesa County is having problems with, and what the... conspiracy theorists... are having problems with, are vote counting machines.

Colorado has paper ballots, not voting machines. Votes are counted electronically, but risk-limiting audits are done on all elections. Some percentage of the paper ballots are selected and counted again. They should come within a percentage of the overall count. A failure of a risk-limiting audit triggers a recount. My memory is hazy about procedures after this.

The huge problems with Diebold machines were multiple: you voted on them. They counted the votes, with no other record, and no receipt to the voter to ensure that the machine counted as the voter wanted. There was no record of the votes other than electronic in the machines, so recounts were meaningless. Diebold's CEO was a partisan, and announced it. Anyone of integrity would have problems with how Diebold did things.

The Mesa County situation is completely different. Paper ballots which can be recounted by hand or electronically, and provide the voter with some small assurance that their ballot is marked the way the voter intends. Systems in place to notify voters that their ballot is in the mail, accepted for counting, and then finally, counted.

[8note]

Wouldn't a receipt be illegal? You shouldn't be able to prove your vote to a third party

[sagarm]

In a voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT), the voter doesn't keep the receipt. They're collected just like paper votes and used for auditing.