Re: Hand count or open source

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:59:04PM -0700, Evan Daniel Ravitz wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Some Guy wrote:
> 
> > I think we only had four people say yes to hand counts. I guess everyone
> > else is more interested in fast and secret than accurate.
> 
> Everybody else has been silent. That doesn't mean anything.

To me, it means that everyone agrees with me: The question was put in
a confrontational way to which it was difficult to respond politely.

The use of hand count and machine count both have problems. Choosing the
one that appears at the moment to have fewer problems seems unwise.
The paper record of a hand count is hard to verify. In some ways it is
like DRE, you do the count once. Where is the verification in that?
In DRE, you do the count once, and print the results as many times as
the law requires. 


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Paul E Condon           
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