I don't understand why electronic voting wouldn't automatically produce a paper trail or at least a printable record of a a whole day's voting. If at each voting precinct, each machine was set up to participate as a database or even a document, each entry would produce a time-specific vote. Why wouldn't that be done?

brucie's supposition as to whether finger prints were then utilized in every manner of intrusive ways is worrisome. Any system is only as good as the people in power at any given time and subject to abuse at any time, even years into the future.