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Name :   Kathy Dopp
Organization :   National Election Data Archive
Post Date :   9/30/2005

Section Comments
Section :  A1D
Page no. :  D-4
Line no.:  27 - 28
Comment :  RE: Appendix D (your comment form does not permit Section: Appendix D or Section: D-1 to be entered)

It isn't practical to inspect and test to try to ensure the integrity of the vote counting programs because:  
(a.) many voting systems use microsoft windows operating systems with hundreds of other programs on them, including drivers, any one of which could be used to tamper with vote counts; and  
(b.) computer scientists claim that it is impossible to test enough to find all bugs; and  
(c.)most election officials do not have the resources or expert computer technicians to do such testing before, during, and after elections on each voting machine.