Re: Hand Recounts of votes recorded on DREs

[Dick Johnson <dick.johnson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Title:

Rebecca has a very good point.  Even more effective at estimating lost votes would be a voting simulation using the actual systems used in voting in the past election.  Any system based on Windows should be capable of being driven by WinRunner; why not simply do the experiment?  It should not be hard to simulate the actions of diverse voters, including voter error.

This is my personal and professional opinion, and it does not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer.

-- Dick

Richard C. Johnson, Ph.D.
Applications Architect
Oracle Corporation
631-689-3736


R. Mercuri wrote:

As Ted says:
  

-ps.  hand recounts even with 3 people watching usually have 2 to 3 errors
per thousand,
    

That translates to a "lost vote" rate of 0.3%, which is still
well below the unexplaned "residual" vote rate of 3-5% (at times
as high as 9%) with the unrecountable touchscreen systems.

Also note that Cast Vote Records are not demonstrably equivalent
to the ballots that the voters cast, hence they do not constitute
a "recount," only a "reprint" of GIGO generated by the computer.

Rebecca Mercuri.