Surprise, Surprise: E-Voting Glitches Found In Early Voting
from the this-is-a-surprise? dept
The GAO had warned that there would be some pretty massive e-voting problems this year, as election officials were not properly trained on the already problematic machines, so it should come as little surprise that over in West Virginia, the "early voting" procedures have resulted in numerous complaints that the e-voting machines selected the wrong candidate. The scenario is depressingly similar to the one that The Simpsons predicted, where the voter selects one name, and the other one shows up as highlighted. Poll workers told them to just keep clicking until the right one was chosen, and noted that the machines have "just been doing that."What's more depressing is how everyone involved seems to brush this off as no big deal. Officials claimed that these "were isolated cases and that poll workers fixed the problems so the correct vote was cast." That may be true of the two people that CNN spoke too, but who knows if others got the machines to work properly. And then there's West Virginia's Secretary of State, Betty Ireland , who basically pulled a page from Sequoia's playbook, of covering her eyes and ears and screaming loudly that everything is fine:
"There are no problems with the machines as recalibrated. Touch-screen voting in West Virginia is accurate and secure."Because you say so? As opposed to those who are actually voting and finding it's not? That's comforting.
In this case, the machines are supplied by ES&S whose machines (like both Sequoia and Diebold) have a relatively long history of screwing up at election time. ES&S is also the company where an employee of the company showed up here to berate us and insist that no independent experts should be allowed to look at the machines and that they were safe and reliable because those working at these firms knew better than the rest of us. It's as if the e-voting companies and the politicians think that if they just keep repeating it, maybe it will become true.
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Open Source voting machines
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If there's even a HINT of something funny going on there will be riots. Bank on it.
-Like 8 years ago? This isn't a new issue.
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Re: Voting Machines - by Seriously
Personally I would look at ACORN who have said that almost half of the million new registrations across the country are false - Hellow Acorn and the Democraps who support them.
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Your mixing things up-- Voter Registration fraud, is not Voting Fraud as Faux News wants you to believe. There is a difference.
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AS for a Disney character on an ID that was pulled in Basic Military Training when I was a recruit in the USAF during the South East Asian War Games of the late 60's and early 70's. We had two door guards fall for that one. The ID had Mickey Mouse as the photo and his name Mickey Mouse - Poor kid was misdirected by the oak leafs on the officer's shoulder.
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Consider how easily one can obtain a false driver's license or other identification in the U.S.
Voter Registration fraud is the FIRST STEP to Voting Fraud.
Thought you were smart enough to figure that out.
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
Whit that in mind, don't you know that the system has built-in quality measures? Some 400,000 names were dumped for one reason or another, most likely because of duplication. When someone comes to your house asking if your registered, by jimminey, you may want to re-register because you recently moved, or are unsure if you are in fact registered because you didn't vote the previous year. In conclusion, I think grandstanding about voter registration fraud is unfounded hooey.
Your Joesph Goebbels-inspired fear tactics are worthless, at best.
Get back on topic, this is about E-Voting.
Thought you were smart enough to figure that out.
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Care to provide corroborating references ?
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"how does voter registration fraud not effect the outcome of an election?"
It's a hypothetical situation. After all, whats the point of all these fake registrations by ACORN if not to do something along the lines of this hypothetical?
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ACORN is a distraction used prior to the election only to provide credence for recounts.
Oh there will be recounts. LOL. If you knew what I knew...
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What a joke.
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Don't be complacent . Consider Volunteering
Plus, I worked it out to get a paid personal day off, and also get a few hundred dollars for my time from the County. Not a bad deal to keep an eye on things.
It's very easy to do, and if your interested, you should look into it too. Just call your Election Clerk. I bet they could use the help.
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Do it by mail
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DUH!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_voting#United_States
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paperless electronic voting machines cannot be secured
Google on the 'underhanded C contest' for examples of inscrutable code-even open source cannot assure the voter that their votes are accurately and honestly recorded without an eyeball-verifiable permenant trail and chain of custody.
Google on "Spoonamore affidavit" to learn how the Z80 hardware based electronic voting machines can be reprogrammed on the fly with no evidence of the code revisions.
I've been writing computer code since 1972, and I cannot be more confident that absent such a paper trail, the voting systems can easily be corrupted. Given the inexplicable "man-in-the-middle" chain of custody that some states now use, routing their electronic votes to a third party before counting them, only a physical indelible ballot can suss out the fraud that makes possible, and is evidently happening.
In a recent election that I inspected, the electronic voting machines were modem equipped, could be programmed on the fly, and the paper tape trail easily spoofed by cooking the results before hand and simply scrolling the paper tape back into the machine. The standard procedures would not have detected that spoof, and all the custodial witnesses would sign off on the results in good faith- they "saw" the machine print those results...or so they thought. Odder yet, state law denied a hand review of the signature book vs the reported vote count until all the records had been handed to the state for some months...so no-one could even make the immediate and obvious spot check for such a spoof until the chain of custody of the records became muddy and the records stale.
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$$$ > vote
Same comapny, same tech, different customer.
Ah ha !
So, money is more important than election
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online or offline, fraud is fraud
ACORN is not a distraction, it's a window into a real problem that spans multiple states and involves a staggering number of voter registrations, 13 Obama campaign workers in Ohio (including the spokeswoman for Obama Ohio) just cut a deal with prosecutors to avoid prosecution by formally requesting to have their mail in ballots pulled, and the owner of a firm the GOP here in California hired to register voters was just arrested for vote registration fraud.
Defenders say voter registration fraud is not a problem, it's vote fraud and it is regularly caught but that argument is an attempt to prove a negative. If I catch one person committing income tax evasion, can I then assume that no one else is successfully doing so? You simply can't prove voter fraud doesn't happen because you successfully catch select instances of it.
Voter registration fraud is the precursor to vote fraud and by definition inflating voter rolls is a form of social engineering that in itself is voter fraud.
I hope more instances of these fractures in the integrity of our voting system come to light so that it gets taken seriously and reforms are implemented. We need secure electronic voting, voter identification systems, and standards for cross checking databases and systems across states and the feds.
If voters don't have confidence that their votes are being counted and not altered or stolen by the presence of illegal votes, then we all lose. This isn't a partisan issue, it cuts to the core of what it means to be an American. Citizenship has but one requirement, to vote, and it should be a sacred obligation of our elected and civil service officials to provide the most accessible and most secure voting system in the world.
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Oh ... and Acorn flagged those fraudulent forms and reported them, did they not ? Old news, you're flogging a dead horse.
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And no, ACORN didn't flag all fraudulent registrations. ACORN is under formal investigation in 11 states and in 3 other states they are merely suspected of illegal activities. Your response is nothing more than partisan "nothing to see here, move on" and it discredits you because you trivialize by suggesting a few registrations were found to be ineligible and turned over. Please, that's like suggesting the problems on wall street are because a few mortgages in south florida are in default.
If you are genuinely interested in going beyond your provided talking points on ACORN, read this:
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/ACORN
Ask yourself, if it were just the GOP raising the voting machine issue, would you care?
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I think it's a touch ungracious of him that he has not ONCE voted.
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"Why are the ATMs secure, but the voting machines are not ?"
LOL, ATMs aren't secure.
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Not really, no. Other democracies, like India and Australia, seem quite capable of using voting machines in a transparent and robust fashion to conduct free and fair elections, but the US continues to have great trouble with this.
And just look at some of the comments posted after my first one, to reinforce the point about how quickly such discussions degenerate into partisan bickering.
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If you were the developer of a product that was taking a lot of heat unfairly, wouldn't you welcome an independent review to finally crush the rumors and eliminate the need for you to sound like a broken record over and over again?
The only reason I can see for keeping something like this from being looked at by an independent review board is if you know for certain there is something seriously wrong and you don't want to be forced into a situation where you are required to fix it.
I don't believe that any one candidate is responsible for this, but that these companies are simply lazy and don't want to debug their programming so that it works properly.
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These machines should be audited and must generate the paper trail. We do get a receipt for everything we buy, we have to keep tax records and other important document, but we don't get a proof of our vote (which is more important than any sale receipts or tax records).
VOTE on Nov. 4th (if you register)
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That's because that is how political ads work. It doesn't have to be true, just repeated and people will think of it when they go vote. It is only natural that politians act that way, and no surprise about these machines.
Didn't we find out a long time ago that it doesn't matter who we vote for because the elected person doesn't NEED to win the vote count to become president.
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Even open source is NOT sufficient
Briefly, we must assume an attacker budget of at minimum $100M (based on Schneier's 2004 estimate) and I think a more realistic value these days is $250M. That's enough money to pay for custom chip fabrication and other difficult-to-detect manipulations of voting systems.
The way to avoid this is to avoid the systems: pencil and paper.
As to the diversionary discussion about other mechanisms of fraud, two comments: first, you should educate yourself about the different between voter registration fraud and voter fraud. Unless you are fully conversant in that distinction, you are insufficiently informed to provide any meaningful comments or opinions. Second, given the ill-advised use of computerized voting systems in the US, it is presently far cheaper, far easier, and much less risky to use THOSE to rig an election than to rely on
good old-fashioned methods like ballots-from-the-dead.
So if you are sincerely considered with the integrity of
the election process, you will put aside, for now, the quite trivial impact of both Republican and Democratic voter registration shenanigans, and focus your attention instead on the far more massive problem of computerized voting systems.
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Surprise , Surprise
hosted by a man named Gerge Nory who has had several guest on the show over the past few years who have warned us time and time again about these Elc. Voteing Machines. Dosen,t anyone listen to talk raido at nite?
If you did, this would not be any suprise at all. These machines are made to fail so the voteing can be rigged. Each time they keep clicking on the candadite they want to vote for and it shows up for the other candadite, they are told to keep clicking. Every click is a vote for the other guy that they dont want to vote for. Go ahead ,KEEP CLICKING. That is why they say the pools mean nothing anymore.
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How hard could it be?
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Ireland directed the state's county clerks to recalibrate their machines each morning during the early voting period and on Election Day.
Why is "recalibration" needed for a digital voting machine? It appears that the reason for that these guys are designing voting machines with touchscreens.
It is the touchscreen that needs calibration as described in this article from two years ago.
The code to tabulate the vote counts is trival (as in suitable for that "1st semester high school programming subject"). It's the extra care needed from the poll workers for the touchscreen that seems to be the problem.
The Secretary of State is trying to make sure that everyone knows that this calibration step is essential for these touchscreen voting machines to work properly.
I suppose the voting machine designers could have gone with the simpler (and cheaper) monitor with buttons on the side found in older ATM machines. The display would say something like "To vote for candidate xyz, push this button -->". The only thing you need to worry about is a button with a bad contact.
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I would first look at the touch screen design, it is probably horrible. The voting machine manufacturer needs to remove and replace all those defective devices. However, the defect may or may not be software related. You do not know until you evaluate it. Assuming it is a hardware problem within the touch screen, a software fix would be subpar. That is probably what has already occurred. This example is one in many, and each machine seems to have its own little quirks. The one problem that they all share is the lack of securing the vote. Given enough time and resources every one of them could be owned. The trick, I suppose, is to make it just difficult enough to stop such attempts
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Australia does not, never has and will not use voting machines.
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oh really?
http://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/e_voting/index.htm
http://www.softimp.com.au/evacs/News%20I tems/news26Nov07.html
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voting E-machines
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Our military "interventions" can be chalked up to the hubris of a regime. Our economic folly can be chalked up to the greed of a moneyed class. But this great experiment must defend the voice of the people as the last light in dark times.
These non-verifiable voting systems not only undermine this truth, but the cynical and overt twisting of the ballot box undermines the promise that Democracy itself extends to those voting in this country, and in every country where the people go to the polls, trusting that the truth of the people's voice can end the fear, pain and injustice of hubris and greed.
Give me a receipt that tells me how I voted. Put a serial number on the receipt.
Please. Before it is too late.
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Prevent voter fraud-- Vote for JOHN McCain !!!
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Prevent voter fraud-- Vote for JOHN McCain !!!
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This could creat a questionable doute about their creditabilty and wether we should trust them. I bet the are not made here in the good ol' US of A
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But as a consumer, do you trust your computer ?
Where do you think it was made ?
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Note the date of this article. Spooky.
http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2008/09/15/story2.html
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Now lets go out and Vote !!
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Looks like someones been drinking the Koolaid!! or, is that suppose to be sarcasim?
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New York, Ciber and the EAC
"the EAC and the unaccredited testing lab are refusing to open
the curtain that hides their soiled laundry."
From: Doug Kellner
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:46 AM
Subject: New York, Ciber and the EAC
On January 4, 2007, the New York State Board of Elections voted to suspend
Ciber from further testing of voting systems submitted to the New York State
board for certification pending a thorough review of Ciber's accreditation
status. We also addressed requests to both the Election Assistance
Commission and to Ciber for all of the relevant documents and reports
concerning Ciber's application to the EAC for accreditation as a testing
laboratory.
Much to our surprise (well, maybe I'm not really surprised), EAC has still
not provided any of the background documentation that we have requested.
While giving lip service acknowledgement of our request, Tom Wilkey, now
Executive Director of the US EAC and former Executive Director of the New
York State Board of Elections, has completely stonewalled us. The New York
State board felt compelled to make a formal Freedom of Information Act
request. Mr. Wilkey's only response so far is that the EAC is reviewing the
issue and is deciding how to respond.
This failure to provide relevant information to a state agency, the first in
the country to require testing to the 2005 standards, is truly outrageous
and scandalous. Not only does it further delay New York's efforts to come
into compliance with the Help America Vote Act, it seriously prejudices the
five voting system vendors who have made such a substantial investment in
trying to obtain certification to the rigorous standards set by New York.
In addition to requiring compliance with VVSG 2005, New York law requires a
voter verifiable paper audit trail, prohibits devices or functionality
potentially capable of internet, radio or wireless data communication,
requires escrow of all software including source codes and authorizes
disclosure in court proceedings; our regulations require full disclosure of
all political contributions by vendors and their executives and set several
other standards that are more rigorous than the VVSG.
While there is general agreement at the New York State Board that we should
be looking to the EAC to assist and guide us in our investigation, we also
made a formal request to Ciber for the same information. After all, they do
hold a $3 million contract from our agency. There has been nothing but
similar stonewalling from Ciber. Ciber's last communication regarding our
information request was that they were trying to co-ordinate a response with
the EAC.
What's going on here? Both the EAC and the unaccredited testing lab are
refusing to open the curtain that hides their soiled laundry. Co-ordination
of the response suggests that we are only going to receive a laundered
version of the facts.
I have also become increasingly annoyed with Ciber's use of the label
"confidential competition-sensitive" on reports that they have prepared for
our agency at our expense. You may recall that in November I circulated for
comments Ciber's first draft of their report to explain New York's
interpretation of the exceptions to the exemption from testing of Commercial
Off the Shelf (COTS)software that is used in the voting machine itself as
opposed to election management software that does not generate code used in
the actual voting process. (Yes, "exception to the exemption" is a double
negative that means that the COTS source code must be tested in those
cases.)
Ciber was apparently miffed that I dared to subject the advice that they
furnished to New York to public scrutiny. They added the "confidential
competition sensitive" label to the second draft. I objected and requested
that they remove the label. Ciber said they'd think about it, but ignored my
request. When I received the final document that had been approved by both
Ciber and our independent security review consultants, New York State
Technical Enterprise Corp. (NYSTEC), I insisted that I be allowed to make
the document public. Ciber balked. When I renewed what had become demands,
Ciber's attorney-yes their attorney-revised the technical report that the
"experts" at Ciber and NYSTEC had determined to be final and said that he
would not object to release of that report. (I have distributed that
report, known as COTS Testing Version 4 to many). I then asked for an
explanation why Version 3, the "final" report was still labeled
confidential. I also gave formal notice that I would ask the commissioners
to release the report. Last night Ciber's in-house attorney wrote me that
he agreed that there was nothing in the "final" report that was properly
labeled competition sensitive. The New York commissioners voted the make
the Version 3 "final" COTS report public today. I will send copies of
Version 3 to the technical blogs and anyone else who requests it. I am
still distressed, however, at Ciber's efforts to stiffle discussion of the
issue by improperly claiming confidentiality.
At today's meeting of the New York State elections commissioners, while
everyone deplored the stonewalling by EALC and Ciber, I requested authority
to issue a subpoena to Ciber for all of the documents that we have
requested. Republican Commissioner Helena Donohue blocked the subpoena by
arguing that we should give Ciber additional time to respond to our request
voluntarily. She said that she would reconsider issuing a subpoena at our
next meeting scheduled for February 7.
In view of the collaboration between the EAC and Ciber, I am determined that
we should not accept partial disclosure. New York should take a stand to
end the veil of secrecy that shrouds the testing process.
Douglas A. Kellner
Co-Chair
New York State Board of Elections
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Damn the socialists hate the idea of fair elections.
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Damn the socialists hate the idea of fair elections.
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Beverly Harris has been covering this for years.
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Douglas A. Kellner is right.
The concern over so called "black box voting" is that neither the public nor the voter can be certain that a voter’s ballot is actually going to be recorded and counted as the voter intended.
We must guard against delegating to a very small group of computer and statistical experts who have access the responsibility for verifying the integrity of elections.
Twenty years ago there was an outcry by democracy advocates against the old Mexican system where the paper ballots were taken to election offices and counted in secret by the election officials appointed by the ruling party.
While Mexico changed its process so that everyone could observe the ballot count, in this country we have gone in the opposite direction where the vote count has often been entrusted to computers and those who have programmed them. Instead we must make the process of counting votes transparent and provide for public verification of those results. When election monitors are denied access to the programming and source code that actually counts the votes, it is impossible to verify that the vote was cast in the manner intended by the voter.
That is why it is absolutely essential that any electronic voting system have a paper trail that can be verified by the voter. Of course, that paper trail is meaningless unless it is actually audited to confirm that the machine count matches the paper verified by the voter.
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Bring in Chavez
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Computer for President, Cell Phone for VP
The only solution is to "drill here, drill now" and "fight for our freedom" by killing all uppity elite liberals who control the media which is always picking on Palin's $150,000 pantsuit or designer dress habit. These Obama subversives MUST be destroyed so McCain can fight for the average billionaire to retain his tax write-offs and waivers and rebates and credits.
Our enemy is within, and we MUST send every one of them back to Africa or Iraq or wherever else they come from. And it is most important for John McCain to continue refusing to attend his family reunions in Mississippi as long as the black McCains who are descendants of his slaving owning great-grandfather are there with McCain's brother and cousin.
True racists should unite and oppose both Obama and McCain. One is ashamed of his black half, and the other denies his black relatives even exist. Even Palin's husband's race is polluted by an Eskimo lineage that weren't even US citizens until 49 years ago. What has America come to? The country is being overtaken by Muslims, Eskimos, Africans, Mexicans, and other scruffy sorts of terrorists, instead of the regular sort we have been used to: The Italian Mafiosa, the Irish Travelers, The German Nazis, and Roman Papists.
It is time for us to throw all the bums out and elect a computer President, and a cell phone for Vice President.
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Wow, it's scary that most of you feel you are intelligent
There is no conspiracy, no disenfranchisement going on. Simple PEBKAC errors. Further more, the ballot does not cast until you push a separate button to 'cast' the ballot. You can choose one candidate or the other a hundred times, and it doesn't count until you cast the ballot. There is no foul, just hoards of sheep bah-ing and vomiting what they heard someone else say is a foul. I'm sure glad to be an American, but sad that it's the people who cannot deduce from their own educated minds which way the wind blows and that the speed of darkness is exactly as fast as the speed of light.
Mark Regan, you are an idiot, sir. I laugh at your comments, and fear the power of democracy if the majority of Americans are as dumb as you are.
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@Anti-Socialist
So I would suggest you stop and look into ADA Title II requirements, which also ties into Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as well as 42 U.S.C. §12131–12165.
Of course, if your voting machine company who is looking to push out machines, I imagine your goals are different in scope, and probably not to really understand the scrutiny in which Government will be under if ADA Title II, Section 504, or 42 U.S.C. §12131–12165 entitlements are not provided, which then lead to challenges, well...
Well, there's your problem- The machine wasn't designed like a calculator-- something a dummy could use.
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Puh-Leeze
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What they really meant
Much better
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Touch Screen Machine Problems
Recall the brouhaha over the 2006 Buchanan v Jennings race, where officials approximate 20,000 "under votes", and the ensuing lawsuit. The officials and the courts determined that there was no "fraud", so the results were finally accepted.
I talked to a co-worker who used those same machines in that election and he said that the Buchanan/Jennings (BvJ)choice never appeared on any screen. When he got to the last screen, that displays the voter's choices for review, the BvJ race was not marked at all. He had to scroll back to that page and try again. He found it by the fact that it was the only page where no candidates where displayed on the touch screen. Only the upper line and angle downward of the boxes for each candidate at the bottom of the screen. He said he touched the screen on one of them and saw a change in that area, scrolled forward to the end and saw that he had voted for who he wanted to vote for in the BvJ race.
I live in the same district, but different county, where we use the optical scan voting machines.
I never heard nor read one word of that situation throughout the entire year of the post election complaints and lawsuit.
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i.e. instead of
O Obama
O McCain
use
O Obama O McCain
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Touch screen Machine are not the Problem
My recomendations is to slow down take your time make sure that you are touching the corect spot on the screen. If there is a problem don't finish and they say my vote is wrong it's too late at that point. If there is a problem tell one of the election officals and get your ballet filled out the way you want.
The olny people that ware trying to rig the election is ACORN!!!! lol :)
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Government agencies
I think it's great that the government can't run a simple election, can't figure out how to count the right name when someone clicks on something, but the liberals want the government controlling every aspect of our healthcare through socialized medicine.
I can't wait to walk in to the doctors office for a cough and leave with half my bowels and a spleen missing. At least I wouldn't have had to pay though.
No seriously, can anyone name an efficient well run government agency? Other than the post office, which is closer to a private organization at this point.
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one voter's experience in Chicago
The actual voting process - touching a big box next to the candidate's name - was very easy. However, I didn't find the navigation process all that intuitive. It was the sort of thing that after you do it several times it is obvious, but there is a bit of a learning curve for navigation.
The voting process had me go through the full list of candidates (there were lots of yes/no judge retention items) three times. The first time through I actually touched the screen to vote. I think there were a total of 13 or so screens I had to traverse. The second time through I was shown my vote result and had to confirm or change. Then a paper ballot was generated - it was on a paper roll that was shown but was retained inside the machine like the store copy of the cash register tape at a supermarket - and I had to confirm the text on the paper roll was correct. Then I was done.
My sense (though I did not clock it) is that voting took me two to three times as long as it used to take using the punch card method.
I have zero sense of any errors in my voting process; I can say I feel confident my vote was recorded correctly.
The whole process required a higher cognitive load than voting previously required.
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voteing
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Re: voteing
It's not that we can't produce a fairly secure & accurate voting machine, it's that we won't; because then it's more difficult to rig. ;)
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Annoyance Mitigation
* For each ad mentioning another candidate's position, that party owes the other party an ad. That should cut down the blazing annoyance, and free 'speech' would still be possible.
* For each election, there should be published, for each method of voting:
- Total number of ballots received. (with voter check possible)
- Number of ballots counted.
- Number of ballots rejected (and why preferably).
This would eliminate some of the basic criminal activity in the election process.
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Voter Count Stories
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