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Salon article on pre-election testing of Riverside Co. electronic voting machines
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:31:01 -0400
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:13:59 -0400 From: Scott Alexander <salex () dsl cis upenn edu> Subject: Salon article on pre-election testing of Riverside Co. electronic voting machines To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Salon has an interview with someone who participated in the pre-election "verification" of Riverside County, CA's touch screen voting machines. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/10/15/riverside_voting_machines/index.html [Q:] Sort of a simulation of what would happen during a day of voting. [A:] Yeah. But the touch screens themselves weren't actually pressed. Nobody got to touch those. So we didn't see what was on them, and we didn't see the input that was put into the machine. All that we saw was the output that came out later. And, I mean -- that's like telling somebody that your calculator can add 2 plus 2, then pressing some buttons behind a screen, and then showing them that it says 4. The votes were put in and they started to run, and at that point we were told that it would take several hours ... [A couple of hours later] we went back to see if the test scripts had finished running, but they hadn't. So at that point we broke for lunch and we were going to come back to get the results. I saw several people standing with Mischelle Townsend, and they were signing this piece of paper. At that point, I didn't know what was on the piece of paper; otherwise I would have said something right then and there. I thought it was a type of roll sheet. [Actually, the sheet certified that the observers had seen the test and believed that everything looked aboveboard. The form, which Akin refused to sign, said: "We the undersigned declare that we observed the process of logic and accuracy testing of voting equipment performed by the Riverside County Registrar of Voters, as required by law and that all tests performed resulted in accurate voting of all units tested, including both touch screen and absentee systems."] -- Scott Alexander <salex () dsl cis upenn edu> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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