[ale] Is there any way to stop this travesty? -- NO, of course not!

[Keith R. Watson]

Irv,

The quoted article:

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/today/metro_d3569ddbd46e52e 
d0013.html

said the following:

"Diebold officials say its machines have been used in elections in Maryland,
  Virginia, Indiana and California with few reported problems."

Wouldn't that indicate prior testing?

Also the article stated in several places that many of the problems were 
the result of operator error.

The manufacturers proposed solution is to do the following during the 
November elections:

1. Train poll workers before using the new machines.

2. Have numerous manufacture's technicians on hand to handle any problems.

According to the article, it would seem that the only criticism from this 
list that the manufacturer is not addressing, is the use of Windows as the 
operating system.

Just for the record, I agree with the list's sentiments concerning Windows 
as the base for the operating system. I don't think I would have used it if 
I had designed the system.

keith

At 12:44 8/23/2002 -0400, Irv Mullins wrote:
>On Friday 23 August 2002 10:48 am,  Sean wrote:
>
> > Why would _anybody_ create a mission critical application atop a
> > Windows OS?
>
>Why, in fact, didn't we just use tested equipment.  We're too proud, I
>guess, to learn from countries where electronic voting is already in
>place, such as Brasil.
>
>Irv
>
>
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