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On Behalf Of
Lesley
Thompson (earthlink)
Sent: Sunday, November 03,
2002 11:08
PM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: KCStar
article:
excerpt: In
Dallas, 18 touch-screen
machines were taken out of service during early voting after complaints that
votes had been misrecorded. The screens
apparently wore out from repeated touching.
(Is
this really possible? lkt)
In a word, yes, but
I’d expect to see the problem in a mall kiosk or other high-traffic use, not a
unit you roll our four times a year to hold an election. In short, I doubt this is the real
story (or at least not the whole story).
It is interesting to
note that the vast majority of bank machines out there still use clunky
buttons rather than touch screens. I assume a lot of that has to do with
ADA/tactile issues, but
I bet a lot has to do with cost/reliability as
well.
You can look at the
elotouch products and compare their resistive touchscreens (like ours and ES&S’), and their inferred
technology ones.
Ken