CA reverses course on E-Voting

California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley announced his E-Voting decision today. In bullet-point summary fashion:

1. Certification of Diebold machines is revoked. These were the machines used in San Diego, Solano, San Joaquin and Kern counties in March that exhibited numerous irregularities;
2. Shelley has referred Diebold's illegal last-minute modifications of its machines to the Attorney General for civil and criminal action;
3. Non-Diebold E-Voting machines will be required to provide paper receipts of the vote for the November elections;
4. Voters in San Diego, Solano, San Joaquin and Kern will be using paper ballots in November.

According to Shelley's statement, he came close to barring E-Voting in the state entirely for November.

My preferred approach is still: Use an E-Voting machine that gives you a paper ballot which you place in a ballot box. That paper ballot is what is counted. I believe that once you reach the point of acknowledging the vulnerability of E-Votes to tampering (after all, they are only electrons) and retaining the paper ballots as backup, it is an easy step to say - since you don't trust it - why are you bothering with the E-Talley to begin with?