I came across Dr. David Dill while reading
some of Paranoid Bev’s scribbling. Steve, I assume you have met this guy
since he appears to be involved with Santa
Clara. The key
paragraph from his manifesto reads:
- Touch screen machines that print
paper ballots. Such systems would have many of the
advantages of DRE machines, including potentially improved accessibility for
voters with disabilities. There is at least one such machine that is
certified in several states, and we hope that all vendors of existing DRE
machines could provide an option to add ballot printers (DRE voting machines
in Brazil have been retrofitted with ballot printers, for example). The
paper ballots must be submitted by the voters, to be available for counting
or recounting and to avoid vote-selling. The votes on the paper ballots must
be regarded as the definitive legal votes, taking precedence over electronic
records or counts.
This doesn’t tell us
much about how exactly he envisions the system working
though.
Ken
-----Original
Message-----
From:
owner-support@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-support@dieboldes.com] On Behalf Of Green, Pat
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:46
AM
To:
'support@dieboldes.com'
Subject: RE: Ballot Receipt Printer NOW
required in California
Steve,
Thanks for the heads up. We have had quite a few
discussions about how we would do this, but as you noted, the solution will
vary greatly depending on the answers to your questions (Allowed to touch
it? Allowed to see it? Required to see it? Etc). Keep
us informed and feel free to call me if you want to discuss
it.
Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Knecht [mailto:skglobal@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday,
February 07, 2003 6:03 PM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: Ballot Receipt Printer NOW
required in California
The new Secretary of State just announced that he
supports touch screen
vendors being required to print a receipt. This
has major implications for
our new unit. He is only convening a task force
at this point, so we don't
know the answers to questions like:
We don't know whether the voter would be allowed to
touch the receipt.
We dont' know whether the voter will be allowed to see
the receipt.
If voters know that a printed receipt is there, I
believe there will be
demand to see it. I am suggesting that R7
development and design folks
begin having some discussions on various scenarios of
a printed ballot
receipt and how we could "hide" the receipt from the
voter if necessary or
keep them from touching if it comes to
that.
Clearly, we can't begin design on anything until we
know the parameters. On
the other hand, we will be asked for input, and we
should have some well
conceived input, vs. myself or frank or deborah
speaking for development.
Yes, another bad idea, brought to you by our elected
politicians.
SteveK