From GOTV:
A coalition of citizens’ groups will be working to pass legislation through the Virginia 2007 legislative session to require all election machines in the state to provide voter-verifiable paper audit trails. Charter members of the Verifiable Voting Coalition of Virginia include:
Virginia League of Women Voters
Virginia Libertarian Party
Common Cause
New Electoral Reform Alliance for VA
Virginia Verified Voting
Virginia Organizing Project
Southern Coalition for Secured Voting
Having audit trails in voting should be an absolute no-brainer. No business would function without audit trails. Can you imagine handing over to the IRS a disk or card containing your financial transactions and them not asking you for the supporting documents? That’s where we are with these machines, like the ones used here in Norfolk. Optical scan ballots would solve the problem. If there was a recount, these ballots could be totaled by hand.
For more info, contact the Verified Voting Coalition of Virginia.
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
More about the New ERA folks here.
Thanks. I updated the post for links where they could be found. (I found nothing on that last one.)
Paper trails, yes. Giving the voter a receipt, NO!!!
Is anyone seriously considering voter receipts? I always assumed that was a red herring Diebold invented to create FUD about paper trails.
As far as I can ascertain, the honesty of our election process comes from two sources.
1. The management of the election process is decentralized to local governments. So the national government has trouble skewing the results.
2. Our elections use average citizens, volunteers to run the election precincts. These people keep the vote honest.
The reason we need a paper trail is that computers are black boxes to most people. Your average volunteer has no idea how to verify that an electronic voting machine is working properly. As I see it, each voter should be shown a paper receipt so that they can verify the machine properly recorded their vote. Then the voting machine can store the reciept in a box. If a recount is need, the contents of the box can be examined.
This initiative focuses on the use of opscan ballots. I’ve never used them but I assume that the voter would complete the ballot and put it in the machine, seeing on a screen that the ballot had been read properly.
I would much prefer the electronic voting with a printed copy that is placed in a ballot box. The opscan ballots are subject to fraud.
The fraud works like this: An operative hands a pre-marked ballot to someone, who gets a clean ballot to vote on. He then deposits the pre-marked ballot in the box, and gives the clean ballot to the operative, who pays the voter for his service and marks the ballot for the next person.