Any voting system purchased using bond funds that does not
require a voter to directly mark on the ballot must produce, at the
time the voter votes his or her ballot or at the time the polls are
closed, a paper version or representation of the voted ballot or of
all the ballots cast on a unit of the voting system. The paper
version shall not be provided to the voter but shall be retained by
elections officials for use during the 1 percent manual recount or
other recount or contest
Just some rough numbers. To print out the ballots in a human readable form when the polls close, it is going to take one line per voting position per ballot on our AVTS tape. That doesn't even include race/ballot/precinct information that also has to be on there somewhere, but lets ignore that for now. Typical California Primary ballot has 90 voting positions. Typical California polling place has 1000 voters. Our AVTS printer is 6 lines per inch. And finally, lets say I am high by a factor of two on one these estimates.
That is 625 feet of paper, or roughly two football fields.
Obviously we are not paying our lobbyists enough.
Ken