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BIDEN: "Now, the second piece you're talking about, which is what people usually mean by election reform, how are you going to keep it from us being able to be in a position where you can manipulate the machines, manipulate the records? The one way to do that is, I think we should pass a federal law mandating that the same machines with paper trails be mandatory for every federal election. That will be a multibillion-dollar bill for the states because the states will have to make a choice then. They will have to make a choice whether or not they have two machines. We can't mandate, as you know, state elections. We can't tell the state of Delaware, or Ohio, or Texas, what machines and what method they use to vote in their state election, but we can do it federally. So, in a nutshell, I think we should be mandating — mandating that we have a paper ballot with a standardized machine, standardized requirement."