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Name :   Sanford Morganstein
Organization :   Populex Corporation
Post Date :   8/26/2005

Section Comments
Section :  6.8.2.3
Page no. :  38
Line no.:  27
Comment :  Discussion
It should be clear that this requirement only applies to those cases in which there
is a record on a DRE and on a paper medium. It should be acceptable to mark a
ballot and to verify it on a system that uses the same technology with which the
ballot is tabulated and it should be acceptable that in some cases the comparison is
not simultaneous. This relates to our general, and we feel, important comments
about the entire notion of “verification.” Verification should demonstrate to the
voter that the ballot machine read the ballot as it appears to be marked. See final
point of this letter, below.