ES&S M100 ballot rejection issue trou...

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Author Message   christine c reid Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: Ctwatcher Post Number: 991 Registered: 12-2007 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Monday, September 15, 2008 - 7:06 am:        http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/show.cgi?tpc=9707&post=49922#POST49922 the link above takes you to a troubleshooting report from Sacramento County, CA. Useful as a model for thinking through tech problems, and as an example of extending the solution beyond the immediate cause to the numerous contributing factors. In this example, ink color (particular shades of lavender, brown, and blue weren't recognized), ink color intensity (ES&S has no specs on this as of the report's writing), failure of ES&S to provide specification updates to authorized ballot printing facilities, location/placement of ink on the ballot, failure to address a type of calibration (DAC) listed in the manual as included in preventative maintenance (but not done and not included, according to ES&S), and unacceptably low level of competence among maintenance technicians were identified among the issues.

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The public must be able to see and authenticate these four essential steps for an election to be public, democratic, and valid: (1) Who can vote (voter list); (2) Who did vote (3) The original count; (4) Chain of custody.