RE: letter to the editor, 11/11

[kellen carey <kcarey636@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

 

You're sorta right: Avanti is the only vender who showed us an already operating and functioning voter verifiable paper ballot.  But it falls short in a few important respects:

 

1) Paper is spooled -- meaning any handcount would be extremely problematic because each separate ballot would have to be cut/separated from ajoining ballots.

 

2) Paper is about as flimsy as the cheap toilet paper used in gas station bathrooms, meaning it won't handle much handling by hand counters.

 

3) Ink deteriorates rather rapidly (either due to the paper type or the ink or both).

 

4) What it prints out isn't the complete context of the ballot, only what you voted for or against.  That is, it just says "County Issue For" and "Sherriff Jones" w/o the other options in context.

 

5) The print is so dang small you have to have a magnifying glass to read it.  Not a terrible thing, since Avanti actually supplies a magnifying glass.  But imagine several hundred hand counters with several hundred magnifying glasses.  Do-able but, really, can't we do better?

 

6) As long as Colorado disallows recounts by any method other than the the original tabulation method, the Avanti spooled paper ballot is utter useless -- except maybe ass (pardon the pun) toilet paper.

 

kell  

Paul Tiger <tigerp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It appears to me that Avante has the upper hand. They do produce a paper
> ballot, and it can be the primary ballot method. Their system puts a 2D
> (blocked bar code) at the top of each ballot, and that can be read by any
> scanner, not just theirs. They can also be hand counted, because they print
> out the voters selection.
>
> Avante is the only vendor that can do this without modifications to their
> system. Everyone else would have to re-write software and add on new
> hardware.
>
> Paul Tiger

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