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| | Name : | Warren Smith | Organization : | N/A | Post Date : | 9/30/2005 |
| Comment : | GENERALLY:
These guidelines are 2 book volumes long and essentially unreadable.
Checking whether a voting machine obeys the guidelines is an extremely
hard problem - in fact beyond the resources of all of humanity and
certainly
beyond the resources of typical US counties - and yet no agency or
entity is created by these guidelines with the technical wherewithal to
have
any chance of testing machines to see if they meet the guidelines. That
means the guidelines are a joke.
But it gets worse. It seems to me that the guidelines largely consist of
identifying bad things about the status quo, and then fossilizing them
as "approved by these guidelines". | |
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