BREAKING: NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE RECOMMENDS SCRAPPING TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING SYSTEMS!(X)

[kster]

Posted by: BradBlog

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[Febble]

1. Great n/t

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

10. read the paper, thats not what it says

sigh, why do we have to do the reading for everyone?


Thats not what the paper says.

[Febble]

11. Sorry, will do

I don't usually jump to conclusions, but succumbed to the desire for unambigously good news for once.

[dchill]

2. Hey! Why don't we ALL vote on it?

Oh. Yeah.

[OregonBlue]

3. Hooray. It's already up on Greatest thread.

[Bill Bored]

4. Let's not get carried away folks!

We should read the actual paper!

They may just be proposing some other form of "independent verification" like another DRE to verify the first DRE, or a video record, etc., etc. It doesn't mean paper ballots. But it sounds encouraging.

NIST should have been much more involved with all this HAVA stuff from the beginning. You can blame Congress for imposing unrealistic deadlines for "compliance" without proper voting system standards.

It also helps when Maryland has election meltdowns because this is where a lot of NIST folks live and vote!

If NIST is saying to dump DREs, it's either because they were shamed into it by fellow scientists and engineers or because they experienced the problems for themselves first hand.

[Bill Bored]

5. Full Paper Here:

http://vote.nist.gov/DraftWhitePaperOnSIinVVSG2007-20061120.pdf

[Bill Bored]

6. Also, this is for the 2007 VVSG! That means it won't go into effect until 2009. nt

[Bill Bored]

7. And...since LBN seems to have temporarily become the Election Reform forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2634870&mesg_id=2635146

[bleever]

8. K&R for Bill

being vigilant about details.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

9. It Says shouldn't certify PAPERLESS DREs to 2007 standards

NIST not recommending decertification of DRES

This is what I gleaned from the executive summary

NIST is not recommending decertifying all DREs.
NIST is saying that paperless DRES should not be certified to 2007 standards.
NIST is recommending that 2007 standards for DREs require VVPATS
NIST also plans to write standards for independent verification systems.
NIST considers DREs with the VVPAT to be SI (software independent).

Some of the many acronyms used in the paper DRE – Direct Record Electronic, used in this paper to refer to cur...

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