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“Voting machines are among the least reliable devices on this planet.”
http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~lopresti/Talks/2008/LTSEvotingTalk.pdf
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“Voting machines are among the least reliable devices on this planet.” (Original Post)
Baobab
Mar 2016
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Wilms
(26,795 posts)1. DRE Reliability: Failure by Design?
DRE Reliability: Failure by Design?
By Howard Stanislevic, Research Consultant, VoteTrustUSA E-Voter Education Project
Abstract The Election Assistance Commissions Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines (VVSG) are developed by a Technical Guidelines Development Committee that includes participation by the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) a 375,000-member non-profit professional organization whose code of ethics states that its members shall accept responsibility in making engineering decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the public. We show herein that the VVSG Reliability standard for e-voting systems, expressed as a Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of only 163 hours, is woefully inadequate, resulting in voting systems of lower reliability than mechanical lever voting machines in use for over 40 years. This standard allows 9.2% of all e-voting systems to fail in any 15-hour Election Day, and a much higher failure rate during the extended Early Voting periods now being implemented in many states.
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In other words, the number of failed DREs allowed (F) is equal to the number of hours in the Election Day multiplied by the number of DREs in the jurisdiction, divided by the MTBF of 163 hours. With this MTBF, the failure rate allowed during any 15-hour period (F / N x 100) will always equal 9.2% or one out of every 11 DREs.
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1057&Itemid=26
By Howard Stanislevic, Research Consultant, VoteTrustUSA E-Voter Education Project
Abstract The Election Assistance Commissions Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines (VVSG) are developed by a Technical Guidelines Development Committee that includes participation by the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) a 375,000-member non-profit professional organization whose code of ethics states that its members shall accept responsibility in making engineering decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the public. We show herein that the VVSG Reliability standard for e-voting systems, expressed as a Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of only 163 hours, is woefully inadequate, resulting in voting systems of lower reliability than mechanical lever voting machines in use for over 40 years. This standard allows 9.2% of all e-voting systems to fail in any 15-hour Election Day, and a much higher failure rate during the extended Early Voting periods now being implemented in many states.
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In other words, the number of failed DREs allowed (F) is equal to the number of hours in the Election Day multiplied by the number of DREs in the jurisdiction, divided by the MTBF of 163 hours. With this MTBF, the failure rate allowed during any 15-hour period (F / N x 100) will always equal 9.2% or one out of every 11 DREs.
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1057&Itemid=26
ladjf
(17,320 posts)2. That's a fact. Why is nothing done about it? nt
tblue37
(64,979 posts)3. It's a gentleman's agrrement among those already in power. They won't squawk about
the riggable machines as long as their *own* office is unchallenged.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)4. That is exactly the correct answer.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)5. In 2009, Democrats in DC had an opportunity to protect our votes and voting rights.
But they didn't bother. Hmmmmm.