Kell,
Avante
Paper is not spooled. Each ballot receipt is cut and a separate piece of
paper in the printer ballot box. They made a point of making this part
of their presentation that I attended. They said to be wary of Sequoia
or any other vender that spools paper because you may be able to figure out
which ballot goes with which person if combined with a time stamp or video of
the polling place.
It is not
ink it is a thermal print which is flimsy but no ink involved.
I agree
with the systems currently on the table Avente is the best but it is still sup
standard to our goal of a full printed ballot that is then optically scanned
for the tally.
Alan
Crandall
Paul,
You're sorta right: Avanti is the only vender who showed us an already
operating and functioning voter verifiable paper ballot. But it falls
short in a few important respects:
1) Paper is spooled -- meaning any handcount would be extremely
problematic because each separate ballot would have to be cut/separated
from ajoining ballots.
2) Paper is about as flimsy as the cheap toilet paper used in gas
station bathrooms, meaning it won't handle much handling by hand
counters.
3) Ink deteriorates rather rapidly (either due to the paper type or the
ink or both).
4) What it prints out isn't the complete context of the ballot, only what
you voted for or against. That is, it just says "County Issue For"
and "Sherriff Jones" w/o the other options in context.
5) The print is so dang small you have to have a magnifying glass to read
it. Not a terrible thing, since Avanti actually supplies a magnifying
glass. But imagine several hundred hand counters with several hundred
magnifying glasses. Do-able but, really, can't we do better?
6) As long as Colorado disallows recounts by any method other than the
the original tabulation method, the Avanti spooled paper ballot is
utter useless -- except maybe ass (pardon the pun) toilet paper.
kell
Paul Tiger
<tigerp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It
appears to me that Avante has the upper hand. They do produce a
paper
ballot, and it can be the primary ballot method. Their system puts
a 2D
(blocked bar code) at the top of each ballot, and that can be read
by any
scanner, not just theirs. They can also be hand counted, because
they print
out the voters selection.
Avante is the only vendor
that can do this without modifications to their
system. Everyone else
would have to re-write software and add on new
hardware.
Paul
Tiger
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