Re: Hand Counting: How Possible Is It for This Year?

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bo-

Strange though it may sound in this day and age of putting high-tech 
spacecraft on Mars, didn't the CalTech/MIT study find that hand counted 
paper ballots were the most accurate? Some technologies endure for a 
reason, right? I'd vote for some new energy technology before new 
elections technology, personally.

Do you support the idea of a statistically valid sample hand-count to 
verify the machines?

In either event, I agree that it is crucial to get more people involved 
in our elections.

Joe



On Apr 7, 2004, at 11:26 AM, delta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> All this "hand" counting and "hand" marking.......
> Does it strike anyone else as a pretty Luddite type of stance??
>
> how about coming up with *constructive* ways to make technology work 
> *for*
> us rather than agin' us?
> I fail to see where a buncha tired, retired and unemployed people (the
> volunteers who would be doing the hand counting after polls close) 
> would be
> more accurate than an impartial machine scanner.
> *That* should be the focus........moving us into the future with 
> secure,
> verifiable and accurate technology.
> NOT returning us to technology of 200 years ago.
>
> Bo
>
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> > Evan,
> >
> > I appreciate your commitment to the simplest possible solution, and 
> > one
> that
> > is demonstrably considered the most effective by the authors of the 
> > Cal
> > Tech/MIT study on voting systems.