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Name :   Warren Smith
Organization :   N/A
Post Date :   9/30/2005

General Comments
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".