I think the key has
to be the election officials themselves. We (the vendors) can’t
effectively argue our case since we are simply seen as self-serving. All
these MIT/Caltech/Stanford ‘experts’ have never run an election and have never
created an election system, but people will listen to them anyway. And I
won’t even discuss the crackpots.
The officials,
however, know the score. If this goes the full Mercury Method, where the
voter can change their mind after their
receipt was printed, that would pretty mean the end of electronic
DRE I think. Can you imagine two million six-inch strips of paper in
Los
Angeles County? While I
cannot speak for her, I can’t imagine someone like Connie McCormack ever
letting that happen.
Ken
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From:
owner-support@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-support@dieboldes.com] On Behalf Of Steve Knecht
Sent: Friday, February 14,
2003 1:28
PM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE: Ballot Receipt Printer NOW
required in California
[excellent list of
questions deleted]
·
how do you stop this
steamroller from happening?