User: DrCriswell

Re:Keep the touchscreens, but...

On: Touch Screen Voting Industry Circling Wagons

(Disclaimer: I am Bev Harris' Publisher)

You want to do both.

Print the ballot and store the vote digitally, then you compare the two. The voter sees the ballot and sticks it in the ballot box.

At the end of the day you audit x% of precintcs and compare the totals, which should match up 100%.

If they don't:

1) You miscounted the ballots.
2) The software/hardware screwed up.
3) Someone tampered with the voting.

If ballots are missing or altered, use the digital count. If the digital count says everyone got -16,2002 votes, use the paper.

Also, with a CD-R recording everything that happened on the machine you have a third audit source of data.

David Allen
Publisher, CEO, Janitor
Plan Nine Publishing
1237 Elon Place
High Point, NC 27263
http://www.plan9.org

Re:why are they fighting a printing machine?

On: Touch Screen Voting Industry Circling Wagons

(Disclaimer: I am Bev Harris' publisher)

You don't want a "receipt", you want a ballot. A CVM needs three levels of protection:

1) Encryption of voting data in the machine

2) A CD-R keeping a log of everything tyhat happens on the machine.

3) A paper ballot of each vote, placed in a ballot box after the voter sees it.

We then have three methods to verify the integrity of the vote.

David Allen
Publisher, CEO, Janitor
Plan Nine Publishing
1237 Elon Place
High Point, NC 27263
http://www.plan9.org