Re: A couple newspaper articles on touch-screen DRE
Hi Vincent.
These new problems in Palm Beach suggest
that abandoning the complicated punch-card
system has made things at least temporarily
worse.
Obviously, if the voters were refused secrecy,
a poll worker or loiterer could disable votes
for selected candidates, producing the mess
reported.
The secrecy problem has been developing in
California, too: The voting places here
in the Santa Clara area, at least, allow
poll workers to see choices as they are
taken. However, no automated control over
votes is obviously possible (yet).
--
John
jwill@AstraGate.net
John Michael Williams
Vincent J. Lipsio wrote:
>
> Greetings!
> As promised in the security task group's conference call,
> here are a couple of newspaper articles that have been sent
> to me. They deal with alleged malfunctions by a touch-screen
> voting system in a municipal election, as well as some
> problematic human factors.
>
> Although I sent this within a few minutes of the conference
> call, unfortunately I sent them to the main reflector to which
> I can not post; hence the delay.
>
> Also, I have another article on an undisputed election
> foul-up caused by a technician's error setting up the system;
> I'll excavate this article and send it shortly.
>
> Type to you later,
> Vince Lipsio
>
> This message made from 100% recycled, post-consumer bits.
>
> http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/tuesday/local_news_c32ba6cf540f01431091.html
> http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/index.html?ts=1020184949
>
> ...