AutoMark Paper Ballots Beat DREs in Real-World Accessible User Testing

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

From Oregon:

"On April 4th, 2005, citizens with disabilities from all over the  
state tested voting systems and completed
surveys documenting their reactions to each system. A total of 496  
surveys were completed."

http://www.uhavavote.org/vendorfair/survey_results/ 
survey_results_chart.pdf

The ES&S AutoMark ballot marking device was the overall top selection.

http://www.essvote.com/HTML/products/automark.html

Note that the AutoMark is _NOT_ a DRE device, instead, it prints  
marks onto a ballot suitable for optical scanning.

Joe