Re: Hand Recounts of votes recorded on DREs
-check beginning of day totals
-compare voting numbers on voted registration records with end of day
totals
-make sure that tallys reflect memory modules from voting machines
-compare modules to internal memory of voting machines
-make sure precinct tallys are included in total count
-make sure provisionals, early voting and absentees are included and shown
to be legitimate
mailed and delivered ballots.
-make sure that the early count and certification team's are supervised
and hopefully are separate.
-check l and a tests
-if all else doesn't convince you, run a machine with the code that was
used on the day of election with
the time set to the day of election and run some votes through it.
-ps. hand recounts even with 3 people watching usually have 2 to 3 errors
per thousand,
video tape the hand count to go back and find the errors.
+ Professor Ted Selker, MIT Media Lab +
Director Context Aware Computing Group
Director Industrial Design Intelligence
MIT Director, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
E15-322 20 Ames St., Cambridge MA, USA 02142
selker@media.mit.edu
+ 617-253-0291, FAX 617-253-0910 +
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12/05/2004 06:34 Subject
PM Hand Recounts of votes recorded on
DREs
Currently, Washington State is engaged in a hand recount in the race
for governor. Some of the counties in Washington State use DREs.
What specifications are there in the IEEE P1583 drafts for a standard
for extracting Cast Vote Records from each of the individual DREs,
including obtaining each of the various copies of each Cast Vote
Record on each of the DREs, in the absence of an AVVPAT for each DRE?
What support is there for auditing DREs in the absence of an AVVPAT
for each DRE? It seems to me that there should be a requirement for
being able to extract all of the Cast Vote Records from each of the
DREs, including the various copies of each of these CVRs, in order to
support hand recounts.
Thanks.
Arthur
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