On the iVotronic machine, a judge or clerk can insert the
PEB [looks like a game cartridge] and the machine will offer
the chance to cancel the current ballot. It requires
several steps, and has a list of reasons, such as voter
request, machine errors and such. The actions are recorded
on paper and the vote tally is reset down one. Then you
re-insert the PEB and get the voter the correct ballot.


"Don Tuite" wrote in
message ...
| On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:04:38 -0800, Sylvain
wrote:
|
| Jay Honeck wrote:
|
| Amazingly (to me) I was the ONLY person in line to
choose to vote
| electronically, while everyone else in this VERY
left-wing area (the
| last Republican elected here was in 1957) chose
paper -- no doubt
| because of all the liberal media gibberish about how
the Republicans
| were going to "steal" the election by using Diebold's
computers...
|
| it is not gibberish that these machine are unreliable,
and so easily
| hacked that a chimpanzee can do it (as it has been
demonstrated); I would
| certainly never accept using these pieces of crap to
vote -- note: I know
| a thing or two about computer science -- and would use
paper if given
| a chance if only as a form of protest; the sooner these
machines are
| taken offline and discarded, the better, and one way to
achieve this
| is to refuse using them.
|
|
| What was really hilarious (to me) was that the people
who voted on
| paper were then directed (as always) to feed their
ballot into a (you
| guessed it!) computer tabulator! I just about died
laughing.
|
| except that these voters' votes can be recounted if need
be, since
| they did leave a verifiable paper trace unlike *your*
vote...
|
| There was a machine at my precinct, along with six tables
for marking
| paper ballots. There was also a guy there to help people
use the
| machine.
|
| The guy in line ahead of me requested the machine, so I
took a paper
| ballot. While I was coloring inside the lines, I could
hear the
| dialog at the machine. When I left, the two guys were
still trying to
| back out of a Cinese ballot and get one in English. (The
guy in front
| of me was NOT identifiably Chinese.)
|
| Apparently, once the Chinese ballot was selected,
accidentally or not,
| you couldn't get of it. It had to be voted. Otherwise, it
was an
| invitation to voter fraud.
|
| Beta testing? You could have caught THAT with a
walk-through!
|
| Don
|