Re: Hand Recounts of votes recorded on DREs

[Cem Kaner <kaner@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 7, 2004, at 3:18 AM, Arthur Keller wrote:

> Certainly it is better to have an AVVPAT for each DRE.  But let hand
> recounts of DREs go forward with the painstaking auditing process if
> there's a chance it's not pointless.  We don't want election
> officials deliberately avoiding a great deal of effort by choosing
> DREs without AVVPATs.  Be careful what you wish for, you just might
> get it.

This is precisely why the standard must require AVVPAT. It will always 
be easier and cheaper to have a system without AVVPAT than one with it.

Cem Kaner, Professor of Software Engineering
Director, Center for Software Testing Education & Research
Florida Institute of Technology, 150 West University Blvd., Melbourne, 
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