A post over at Slashdot talks about electronic voting as negative in its lack of a paper trail. This got me to wondering about the long-term maintenance of paper ballots. How long do we keep the actual ballots, particularly for bigger national elections? Are they archived or discarded after some statute of limitations runs out on challenging the results?
In looking for an answer, I found this viewable PDF archive of “the ballots from Leon County, Florida that had no machine readable marks in the [2000] Presidential Race.” The so-called undervotes. More to come as I find it. Anyone know anything about the fate of presidential ballots?
