Re: Hand Recounts of votes recorded on DREs

[David Aragon <dave@xxxxxxxxx>]

Barbara Simons wrote:

> A "hand recount" of paperless DRE votes should come up with
> the same tally that the DRE originally produced, unless the
> DREs are really really broken.

Clearly it can't detect errors in the recording of votes to
produce the DRE output.  But it can detect errors in the
tallying of those outputs downstream of the DRE's -- which is
certainly an area of concern and potential source of errors.

So it's not pointless.  But neither is it the end-to-end
audit function that "hand recount", with its connotations
of painstaking meticulousness, has formerly meant.

Dave.