RE: openvotingconsortium

["Paul Tiger" <paul.tiger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well Pete I have reviewed the materials shown on this site. Someone else
that I know has and suggested this to me.
The claims that I glossed over were the fact that the source is open and it
was intended to run on PC hardware. To me that makes it pretty open. Or at
least compared to hardware and software that we've seen that is 'secret'.
I'm not a great programmer, but I know how. It doesn't seem all that
difficult to me to create a form to be printed in whatever format you'd
like.

Stepping into a question, Pete - why not a bar code?
Having a bar code does not negate having other things printed as well. You
could print the entire ballot and have a bar code. Of the two systems that
I've looked at that produced bar-codes, they were both using standard ISO 2D
encodings. Meaning that you could tally on any system that had the proper
and generic drivers installed. So you wouldn't have to count the ballots on
same manufacture of equipment. Any PC with bar scanning software could do
it.
What are your reasons for not wanting a bar code?

paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Klammer [mailto:pklammer@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:10 PM
To: paul.tiger@xxxxxxxxxxxx; 'Cvv-Discuss@Coloradovoter. Net'
Subject: RE: openvotingconsortium

If this is the system that does not print a full-text paper ballot that
supports independent hand and scan counting, it should be opposed until
improved. If this is the system that encodes the votes in a bar code, for
subsequent scanning by tied-in electronic equipment, it should not be
trusted.


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