Re: Optical-scan equipment problems in California

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Speaking of Avante, I seem to recall that Boulder County rejected their 
FREE offer to use their system (which includes ballot on demand 
printing and document imaging scanning systems, of all things) because 
we had been told it wasn't certified.

So, who's zoomin' whom? Oh wait, about $1.5 million later, I know the 
answer....

Joe


On Apr 29, 2004, at 5:43 PM, Joe Pezzillo wrote:

> ...
>
> You should also have seen (IEEE Voting Machine Study Group member) 
> Pete Klammer's note earlier that Donetta claimed in writing to Senate 
> President Andrews today that there are NO federally or state certified 
> VVPAT systems, which is either glaring lack of knowledge in a key area 
> she's responsible for, or worse, since:
> ...
> b.    Avante’s[4] Vote-Trakker[5] is a federally certified, 
> accessible, VVPAT-equipped DRE. It is fully state-certified in 
> Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, New 
> Jersey, Ohio, Utah, and West Virginia, and certification is pending in 
> several other states.[6] The American Council of the Blind lists the 
> Vote-Trakker as an accessible voting system.[7]
> The Avante VoteTrakker model 4.4.3 has NASED #03120000443-1990.