new ATM machines can give you a picture of your check or of the

[bobbieinok]

money that you deposit.

This was reported on the Clark Howard Show on Tuesday evening. He said this was a major breakthrough.

He also said that the receipts we get from the machines now are not legally binding receipts, or at least that is what I understood him to say. He said the bank bundles all the checks up and sends them to a clearing house that in turn reports back to the bank. He said the check could get lost in this and that banks do not have to 'believe' the receipt the customer got.

BTW, there was no time to try to call and ask if this new technology could be applied to voting machines. As far as I am aware, Clark doesn't talk about elections or politics, but a case could be made that elections that cannot be trusted damage the economic well-being of all citizens.