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| | Name : | David Dill | Organization : | Verified Voting Foundation | Post Date : | 9/30/2005 |
| Glossary Term : | Touch Screen Voting Machine | Definition : | | Comment : | Machine that utilizes a computer screen whereby a voter executes their choices by touching designated locations on the screen; the resulting
electrical signals are then tabulated within the machine.
Association: voting
Since the term “Voting Machine” is defined elsewhere in this glossary as equipment for the “direct recording and tabulation of votes”, would not a “touch screen voting machine” also
need to record a “cast vote record” in addition to tabulating “those choices”? Wouldn’t it make more sense either to define a touch screen voting machine as a specific instance of a
“voting machine”, i.e., one that uses touch screen sensors as one of the means by which voters indicate their choices or as a specific instance of a DRE, since all touch screen voting
machines currently in use are in fact DREs?
Suggested change:
“A voting machine [or DRE] that utilizes a computer screen whereby a voter executes that voter’s choices by touching designated locations on the screen.”
Similarly, it is worth noting that at least some electronically-assisted ballot markers (EBMs) also employ touch screen sensors for similar purposes. Presumably, such devices would be properly referred to as “touch screen EBMs”. | |
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