RE: testing DREs - what a mess

["Paul Tiger" <tigerp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought that is exactly what happened in FL. Hand counts ordered by a
federal judge. -- pt

-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Daniel Ravitz [mailto:evan@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:57 PM
To: Neal McBurnett
Cc: bcv
Subject: Re: testing DREs - what a mess


On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Neal McBurnett wrote:
>
> So this is another reason to avoid DREs and vote recording machines.
> With a ballot marking machine, this sort of test is far less important
> since the voter verifies the paper results on the spot.

You can verify the paper reflects your votes; but you can't verify
that the scanner/computer combo counts them. And under the law, ONLY
the scanner/computer combo is allowed to count them. The paper is
false "verification" unless a judge ORDERS that it be counted by
people instead of the machine. To my knowledge this has never or
almost never happened in 30 years across the country.

Evan


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