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RE: Ballot Receipt Printer NOW required in California

Title: RE: Ballot Receipt Printer NOW required in California
What makes you think the strips of paper will only be six inches. 
 
What would be a logistical nightmare is having to recount those "official" ballot receipts.  Unless they were printed on some card stock for processing through a scanner or had the ballot data embedded in a bar code, these ballot receipts would have to hand counted.
 
It sounds like those who'd advocate a ballot receipt would rather use an optical scan system for voting.
 
Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-support@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-support@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of Ken Clark
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 5:08 PM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE: Ballot Receipt Printer NOW required in California

 

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

 

 

-----Original Message-----
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]

 

I wonder:

·        how do you stop this steamroller from happening?