Re: Hand Recounts of votes recorded on DREs
On Dec 7, 2004, at 3:18 AM, Arthur Keller wrote:
> Certainly it is better to have an AVVPAT for each DRE. But let hand
> recounts of DREs go forward with the painstaking auditing process if
> there's a chance it's not pointless. We don't want election
> officials deliberately avoiding a great deal of effort by choosing
> DREs without AVVPATs. Be careful what you wish for, you just might
> get it.
This is precisely why the standard must require AVVPAT. It will always
be easier and cheaper to have a system without AVVPAT than one with it.
Cem Kaner, Professor of Software Engineering
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Florida Institute of Technology, 150 West University Blvd., Melbourne,
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Lessons Learned in Software Testing
Testing Computer Software, and
Bad Software: What to Do When Software Fails.