Presto Vivace's Journal: Ohio's eVoting no-count recount

Ohio e-voting review makes a mockery of "recounts"

This is surreal. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports (via TechDirt) that Ohio's Cuyahoga County--ground zero in the nationwide e-voting debacle that I've been chronicling here at Ars--is holding a "recount" of their November 6 local elections by going back to the memory cards in their Diebold touchscreen voting machines and reprinting all the paper ballots, so that they can tabulate paper copies of the votes in compliance with a law that defines the paper record as the only official record of the vote. How stupid is this idea?
This is like printing out all of your bank statements from Quicken, and totaling it all up by hand because you don't trust that the software is displaying your real balance on the screen... no, actually, it's even dumber than that.