Sunday, August 21, 2005

PA VERIFIED VOTING HOME PAGE

This site just came to my attention. What do you think?
PA VERIFIED VOTING HOME PAGE: "PA-VerifiedVoting.org

PAPER BALLOTS WITH ROUTINE AUDITS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S ELECTIONS

What are Voter-Verified Paper Ballots (V-VPBs)?
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2 comments:

Ol' Froth said...

Link doesn't seem to work

August 24, 2005 12:00 AM
Amos_thePokerCat said...

The link is bad. It has some HTML in it.

The PA site is pretty terse. Not much info there. The National site make up for it by being very wordy, yet still managing not to say much.

This is the page with the best description, "Resolution on Electronic Voting".
V-VPB are either paper ballots for "precinct-based optical scan ballots" (No explaination why the Precent level is important), or "touch screen machines that print paper ballots" with this recount procedure: "The paper ballots must be submitted by the voters, to be available for counting or recounting and to avoid vote-selling. The votes on the paper ballots must be regarded as the definitive legal votes, taking precedence over electronic records or counts."

So, either a big obvious paper ballot (I used those all the time in Colorado. Pretty nice.) that you can double check easily, unlike a punch card, or touch screen voting that prints a big obvious paper ballot, which is your real vote. The vote counted by the machine is just a one time election night short cut.

It seems like the usual group of conspiracy theory far-left kooks from looking at their Board, which has EFF people, ex-Miami-Dade officials, and the groups they have allied with, MoveOn.org, TrueMajority.Org, but their goals seem benign enough.

August 24, 2005 12:14 AM

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