Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
The New Jersey Institute of Technology has just released the results of testing done by their Center for Information Age Technology on voter verified paper audit trail printers provided by Sequoia and Avante International. The printers from Sequoia were for their Advantage and Edge voting systems.
According to the results, the printers accounted for 33 flaws. All three printers ran out of paper too fast, lacked concealed printer cables, and had problems alerting poll workers to malfunctions. It is important to state again that these printers were provided by the vendors so there is no reason to expect that these were not the best of the printers the vendors could find.
Anecdotal reports from users of the vvpat [“voter-verified paper audit trail”] printers of the other vendors show that there is no difference between the failures of the Sequoia or Avante as compared to Diebold or ES&S. These printers are the same printers that will be required by federal law with the passage of any legislation that allows the continued use of Direct Recording Electronic voting machines.
Links to the many other notable voting news stories this weekend, all follow below…
Elections: Worries of tampering prompt California to conduct rigorous testing. LINK
Electronic voting records can fail, NJIT says LINK
Provisional-voting rule to cost county $1 million LINK
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The vote on Cheney’s impeachment may have moved a little closer:
(Democrats.com email). When there are 17 cosponsors Conyers will try to move impeachment along. Impeachment is a healthy thing in our structure.
Dredd,
My sign is PIECES, DEATH, #12.
Healthy would be to filter the CMSM crap through a PurePlus Filter before you drink it.
John,
I have not yet, in all the recent election integrity movement cacaphony, felt sure that the EI movement could come up with a single definition of “vote”, “ballot”, or “paper trail”.
The EAC has an interesting statement when it comes to defining DRE:
(EAC Defines DRE, emphasis added). My mind wonders how there can be a vote if there is no ballot? And vice versa?
I would think that a vote is what is expressed thru a ballot and when there is no ballot there is no vote!
But alas, the dictionary definition of ballot offers no simple, clear definition that everyone would agree to either. That word traces back to “ball” which long ago was used in elections.
Alas again, the word “vote” (which descends from “vow”) is likewise the subject of many dictionary definitions.
But if “vote” means a voter’s expression, and a “ballot” is the way it is expressed, then there are as many forms of ballot as there are means of vote expression.
Here is a list that sets out vote type, (expression type), and [trail type]:
Let the disagreements 🙂 begin …
Phil #2
Sounds like you are saying don’t eat the “yellow snow” 🙂 …