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The whole voter verification system in Denver was
flawed from start to finish. Done on laptops with little training and coupled
with machines not of server class. Boulder has had the training problem all along and it
is in other places too. Just asking someone if they can use a computer is no
proof that they can, and telling them to get familiar with software that they won’t
use until it is time to use it is insane. But that is what goes on. In 03 when I worked on the Boulder mail-in election I
was the one of two people verifying signatures using software that had known
problems. Volunteers showed up and were asked “can you use a computer” and sat
down next to me for me to train them. That was something I might have been able
to do in five hours, not in five minutes. Denver and Douglas both had problems with computer
users, not just machines. Your home computer with server software on it does not
make it a server. I have seen most of the ‘servers’ being used and they don’t
fit the technical description of a ‘server class’ computer. They work fine in
the silly simulations that the clerk’s set up, but under real world traffic
they just crap out. paul -----Original
Message----- Paul... I am curious what you
have to say about the problems experienced in the City and County of Denver,
yesterday, with the electronic machines ?? I know you were not
there, but am sure you are paying attention to the media, and what the problems
were. Where did Denver
screw up ? Bye, Peter Richards p.s. I like paper
ballots, like Switzerland... |