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A panel charged with fixing Colorado's election system voted Tuesday to support a recommendation requiring the state to hold all-paper-ballot elections starting in 2014, but one commission member compared the recommendation to being held hostage.

The recommendation, which the legislature can choose whether to adopt, urges Colorado to use only paper ballots starting in 2014. Until then, though, the recommendation proposes allowing clerks to continue using their electronic voting terminals without having to get them recertified or have a paper trail that voters can see.

Those two requirements were pressing down on clerks across Colorado, as a bill from last year that provided a one-time fix to certification headaches is set to expire this summer.