EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Susan Pynchon
Organization : | Florida Fair Elections Coalition
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Manual Audit Capacity
Definition : |
Comment : | I agree with Commissioner William Campbell. Manual Audit Capacity must be defined. Manual audit capacity implies there will be something left to manually audit in case of catastrophic machine failure. One of the integral problems with DREs is that, when they experience catastrophic failure, there is nothing left to audit, manually or otherwise. Also, even without catastrophic failure, DREs are only printing whatever is in the redundant memory; therefore, "garbage in, garbage out." If there is a programming error, operator error, etc., a so-called audit may only be looking at a duplication of error. Is this a manual audit? I think not.