U hit the nail on the head. $4K per copy. Allowing 5 minutes to vote a complex ballot,
Processing speed is about 150 voters per day.
Through put of scanners about ten seconds a vote. Some will preform logical tests of over or undervotes. Only correct or intentionally over-rides make it into the sealed box. And paper makes a better trail than photons.
Duke, who is trying to convince Maryland to adopt this sensible program rather than purchasing 55 million dollars worth of trash.
The OS in Diebold is the familliar flag of Micro$loth. One a week security flaws.
Amen. I wrote essentially the same thing to MD's Gov.who is considering ditching Diebold.
Horror story of Diebold. At final screen there are review of votes marked. Bottom near centerling
Change vote Vote
A friend wanted to change vote. His pinkie barely touched the VOTE box. It was irreversable Note that the alternate of hitting the change box is reversable without a problem. Obviously this is a layout flaw, and probably the final vote should not be on same screen as the final commit.
And there was no paper trail. Too bad.
Several FLORIDA counties used scanners in both 2000 and 2002. I was visiting during both Selections. My son's count used the scanners. They wrote the book on how to properly run a county election. One scanner per voting place could handle more voters than 30 optkcal touch screens. At 4K for either machine what is the choice? Unless one wishes to bonker the voters.
And most of us who have been in schol in the last five decades have experience with filling out the space between the dotted lines for IQ tests, SAT's, registrations, etc.
The Florida scanners were smart. They detected over or under votes. Only those logically correct are accepted. Over-rides are allowed by deliberate over ride by voting judges. Seems like they covered all the bases.
The only problem is only a few counties used them.
A paper trail leads to honest counting.
duke
PS several counties in CA still have only butterfly ballot machines to record votes in a ballot with 135 candidates for one office. Wanna bet there will be "CHAD" hanging in a lot of ballots?
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U hit the nail on the head. $4K per copy. Allowing 5 minutes to vote a complex ballot, Processing speed is about 150 voters per day. Through put of scanners about ten seconds a vote. Some will preform logical tests of over or undervotes. Only correct or intentionally over-rides make it into the sealed box. And paper makes a better trail than photons. Duke, who is trying to convince Maryland to adopt this sensible program rather than purchasing 55 million dollars worth of trash. The OS in Diebold is the familliar flag of Micro$loth. One a week security flaws.
Amen. I wrote essentially the same thing to MD's Gov.who is considering ditching Diebold. Horror story of Diebold. At final screen there are review of votes marked. Bottom near centerling Change vote Vote A friend wanted to change vote. His pinkie barely touched the VOTE box. It was irreversable Note that the alternate of hitting the change box is reversable without a problem. Obviously this is a layout flaw, and probably the final vote should not be on same screen as the final commit. And there was no paper trail. Too bad. Several FLORIDA counties used scanners in both 2000 and 2002. I was visiting during both Selections. My son's count used the scanners. They wrote the book on how to properly run a county election. One scanner per voting place could handle more voters than 30 optkcal touch screens. At 4K for either machine what is the choice? Unless one wishes to bonker the voters. And most of us who have been in schol in the last five decades have experience with filling out the space between the dotted lines for IQ tests, SAT's, registrations, etc. The Florida scanners were smart. They detected over or under votes. Only those logically correct are accepted. Over-rides are allowed by deliberate over ride by voting judges. Seems like they covered all the bases. The only problem is only a few counties used them. A paper trail leads to honest counting. duke PS several counties in CA still have only butterfly ballot machines to record votes in a ballot with 135 candidates for one office. Wanna bet there will be "CHAD" hanging in a lot of ballots?