Re: Can we consense on hand-counting for 2004?

[Nicholas Bernstein <nicholas.bernstein@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seems to me that Pete and Al are finally understanding what a PITA paper 
ballots really are.
If you want to talk about improvements in security, reliability, and 
accountability you have to open yourselves up to the possiblity that a 
DRE system might be able to outperform paper.

Instead what I hear so much from this group is, "We don't trust 
computers. Paper ballots are the way to go!...now lets find a way to 
make paper solve all of these difficulties we see." I'd rather have a 
little academic honesty. If we're into dreaming up a better mousetrap, 
let's get our system requirements out on the table, enumerate and 
prioritize them, and then rank each system we see (along with 
non-existant hypothetical systems) acccording to the metrics defined by 
the requirements.

Nick