----- Original Message -----
From: Steve
Knecht
To: Ken Clark
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: Logging Scanner Jams (was: Audit trail improvement
suggestions) Count is off by 4 votes.
Administrator calls Inspector and asks:
What happened yesterday? How many
Jams did you have?
Inspector says I remember 1 jam around 10:00am but I went to
lunch between 2-and 3 in the afternoon.
Admin checks log and notes that there were 3 jams between 2
and 3 while inspector was gone.
Now calls other judges and asks them about jams, and who
handled, it.
Finds person who handled jams and asks them what procedure
was. Determines they just refed them when they were already counted (or
vice versa).
Again, this is just a "reconstructive" tool. The
statistical approach is ok. Right now we simply say, "well maybe there
were some jams" and we are never able to focus on what the problem was and don't
know if its a training issue or the AccuVote passing ballots. Now if
we don't want any log because we're actually "passing" ballots, then I'd
understand, but the statistical approach to logging jams would be helpful
(especially if we have real estate issues with the logging
approach).
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