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Author Message   admin Board Administrator Username: admin Post Number: 551 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box?  Votes: 1 Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2005 - 2:19 pm:    by joan reports, from Daily Kos -- No. the tabulators for opti-scans can be corruptible. If the state laws discourage or impede hand counts of the paper ballots as a check (like Washington state), then opti-scan tabulating needs the same scrutiny as touchscreens. Opti-scans make sense as long as they're watched, audited – and not black-boxed. Unfortunately, what this testing showed was that the auditing won't work, because we hacked the audit tools themselves. "Watching" or "auditing" won't work if you do the memory card hack correctly. The only workaround is hand-counting the ballots themselves. -- Bev

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.