Re: How many IP addresses can be used in a AVTS election?

Chads not Florida’s only ballot woe

Touchscreen voting system also vulnerable to human error
A voting cartridge used in Palm Beach County's new touch screen voting system is inserted into the computer for tabulation.

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BOCA RATON, Fla., March 13 — The touchscreen voting system that replaced Palm Beach County’s infamous butterfly ballots and hanging chads proved vulnerable to human error when results from city elections were delayed several hours.


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The cartridges were picked up at the home of the worker, who was fired.

ELECTIONS WERE held in a dozen cities Tuesday, but a Boca Raton poll worker forgot to deliver three cartridges from the machines, delaying final results past midnight.
“We would have been done by nine o’clock,” said elections supervisor Theresa LePore.
The cartridges, which record results, were from unused machines, but the computer that tallies votes doesn’t work until all are returned.

The cartridges were picked up at the home of the worker, who was fired, LePore said. A cartridge also was left at an elementary school.
Most voters said the new $14 million system was easier to use than punch card ballots, which were banned by the state Legislature after the butterfly ballots and punch cards caused a national fiasco in the 2000 presidential election.
The machines were first used during a February city election.

Isn't the county full of senior voters?Social Security and Medicare are big issues there, right?Is the county all retirement communities?Is the typical voter there an elderly white female liberal?

It may look that way on TV. Here in Palm Beach County, women outnumber men by four percent in the last census count. And yes, Caucasians outnumber all other ethnic backgrounds by nearly 5 to 1. But the number of voters registered as Republican or other, 362,715, far outnumbers the 296,122 registered Democrats. In fact, there is a relatively large population of Buchanan supporters when compared with the rest of Florida.

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Source: MSNBC.com research

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----- Original Message -----

From: Steve Knecht

Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:34 PM

Subject: Re: How many IP addresses can be used in a AVTS election?

Having done the IP setup with some help in Marin, I can't see this scenario too well. A major question to me is "will the R6 software allow accumulation of cards from only within a vote center, or will it allow accumulation across several vote center". If it allows accumulation across vote centers, then you could use 3 or 4 devices to accumulate 10 or 12 other cards, then upload all the files from that group in one "load". That way you could specify several units from the "local" or closest precinct and know the IP address was already loaded onto them, since you're only needing 3 or 4 units for the upload, you can have a "runner" at the location already to bring them in at the close of polls. Maybe there's a vote center at the location itself? Anyway, my point is simply that I don't think you'd need 16 upload units for 285 cards.

----- Original Message -----

From: Greg Forsythe

Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:30 PM

Subject: How many IP addresses can be used in a AVTS election?

Customer has 285 R6s using BS 4-0-1.1 to be all be used in a low turn out (approximate 15,000 voters) election May 7. They plan to upload direct. A number of the 75 precincts will have four R6s.

They have no spares. They want all 285 R6s to be functional on election day.

The first sixteen units to return for direct upload will be used on the Ethernet hub to upload the 285 PCMCIAs. They do not know which R6s will return first.

Should all 285 R6s have IP addresses? What numbers are available for IP addresses?

Should the IP addresses be installed when the units arrive twenty minutes after polls close? Not a good time IMHO. In advance? They do not plan on using modems.

Greg Forsythe
Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
(416) 446-1383 office (416) 446-1425 fax
(416) 464-3736 cell
changing to gregf@gesn.com