Bunnahabhain -(btw. your link doesn't work for me) that may well be for electronic voting machines. We do not use touch screens and we DO have a paper trail. Before I retired, I worked in the Elections Division. Last year we had a very close governor's race and hand recounted all the ballots. We ended up with just TWO ballots different and those were both intuitive calls. I must say, we were all surprised.

Keep in mind that our numbers in Alaska are MUCH smaller than they are in most other states. Some states have more cast ballots in a a county than we have in the whole state.

All of the ballots in Alaska are counted in one place- they are stuffed into large, zipper-locked bags and shipped to Juneau where they are stored in a locked jail cell until they are retrieved for examination.