RE: RFPET Recommendation

["Some Guy" <someguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry - I used the term DRE too loosely in the company of wing nuts (self
included). I mean Etch-A-Sketch devices. Some souls call touchscreen but
that term serves the sighted only.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pezzillo [mailto:jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 4:15 PM
To: Some Guy; CVV Voting
Subject: Re: RFPET Recommendation


The AutoMark is NOT a DRE, that's the whole point, it provides a
disabled voter a way to mark a paper ballot.

DRE = Direct Record Electronic = Vote storage in computer memory

Any device which stores votes in memory is going to have a hard time
of meeting the CVV first consensus position that we:

Insist on the use of paper ballots as the single, official record of
the vote;

And very likely won't meet position two, either:

Allow no secret software in any voting machines or vote counting
machines;


I saw an argument go by that ballot markers can't be certified
because voters won't be able to fold their ballots...is there a
requirement that ballots be folded? Sounds like a design flaw at the
ballot layout stage. For example, we never had to fold the punch cards.

Joe






On Mar 30, 2006, at 3:43 PM, Some Guy wrote:

> If BoCo insists on listening to Linda Salas and deems DRE a need, the
> Automark is what I would push for.


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