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Name :   Ron Crane
Organization :   N/A
Post Date :   9/30/2005

Section Comments
Section :  .20.1.8.2.3
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Comment :  10c.

Vol. II, §1.8.2.3 permits a test lab to
use a simulation device, and appropriate software, to speed up the process of testing and eliminate human error in casting test ballots.

This procedure, and that described by Vol. II, §4.5 (see below), envisions using this device to cast votes more rapidly, or more regularly, or both, than they are cast during actual voting. These procedures permit cheats that are triggered by patterns seen in
actual voting (but not in automated test "voting") to escape detection.