Re: Guess they didn't use an iSeries...

[Jen Raihala <jen_raihala@xxxxxxxxx>]

Let me preface this with saying, I am reading this line with much  curiosity. I 
have NOT kept up completely with all the computer voting  stuff, so if my 
questions have been asked and answered 100 times  already a kind: "go have a 
drink and relax" would be appreciated. :o)
  
  "Multiple totals..multiple areas" Up to the second as each vote is  cast? Or 
just the "finals" from each machine? How do you handle  registration/sign in to 
vote if the tallies are to be electronically  balanced between voters and 
ballots? Do the election judges print  anything out? If so, how do you protect 
the anonimity of the vote? If I  come through as say number 1701, then on the 
printout, ballot number  1701 would obviously be mine.
  
  In the little township I came from, I would walk in, catch up on the  latest 
juicy gossip with all 3 judges as I signed my name under the  pre-printed one 
in the register. (Then that judge handed me a numbered  card which I gave to 
the second judge to get my ballot/s, which I wrote  my X's on then folded 
(rather wadded to fit in the slot) up and watched  as the 3rd judge crammed it 
into the lockbox).
  
  Personally, I distrust this HAVA bumrush. I am definitely an odd duck.  I 
prefer the piece of paper (written in English only, thank you) and  making my 
little X's in the proper boxes, folding along the lines and  stuffing it into a 
locked box.
  
  But please...continue. Would this qualify as "Continuing Education"?
  
  Wayne McAlpine wrote:
> One of the first principles of managing an elections system, manual or 
> automated, is that there is never just one copy of the vote totals. 
> Multiple copies of the vote totals from each machine are maintained by 
> different governmental entities at different locations.  Totals are 
> certified by a Board of Elections Commissioners at the local level 
> before they become final in the Secretary of State's computer system. 
> It would require collusion on a massive scale to alter the totals.
>