Electronic Voting Reliability in Question

Gilroy Dispatch
Friday, October 27, 2006
By Emily Alpert

Gilroy - Silicon Valley is ground zero for technological innovation, but some say they still don't trust the county's high-tech voting systems...

...To ensure the machines' accuracy, Moreles said poll workers perform a 1 percent manual recount of the printouts, checking them against the electronic results. County supervisor Don Gage said he's confident in that process....

...In San Diego County, Dill said, registrars used a Diebold machine to generate a random list of precincts to audit.

"They're auditing Diebold machines, so they shouldn't use a Diebold machine to decide how to audit it," he said. "A public drawing or dice-rolling would be better."...

In addition, Dill said poll workers sometimes have difficulty addressing technical problems that arise at the polls. That's not a problem here, said Moreles: in Santa Clara County, poll workers receive at least an hour and a half of hands-on training with the machines, in addition to online training. If the workers choose not to do online training, they go through a three and a half hour training.


but, but, but we get four hours of training here ... sans reboot instructions.

Crikey.