A few years ago, when this topic was more widely discussed, I read op-ed pieces by both Bill Gates
and Linus Torvalds to the effect that secure electronic voting was (and is) an impossibility, and
voter receipts would have no effect on that.

Here's a recent article with an admitted partisan bias on this issue.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_len_hart_080112_princeton_univer...

When I read "People want electronic voting." in a New York Times Op-ed piece about a year ago
I knew the fix was in. They didn't give any hint as to which people they were referring to. Do you
suppose counting ballots is one of those "jobs Americans don't want to do", despite rising
unemployment and a steady influx of black market labor? I think the added cost would be easily
recouped in the economic benefits of having a government more responsive to the electorate.
The behavior of the democrats elected to Congress in 2006 shows that they have more fear
of Diebold and the Central Bank Permanent World Government than the voters.

I'd really like to see an online petition leading to national legislation on the issue, at least for Federal
elections . Corruption is far too pervasive to rely on a piecemeal state by state approach, which
could take from twenty years to forever. Or maybe the next unelected dictator will put it in a signing
statement, perhaps on a bill outlawing mass executions on the sabbath.

Can anybody suggest how such a petition might be created?