Election Technology and Problems in the Field

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Election Technology and Problems in the Field Joseph Lorenzo Hall UC Berkeley School of Information ACCURATE

Outline Punchcard/ Lever Optical Scan (CCOS, PCOS) DRE Voting Machines Full-face vs. Scrolling, w/ VVPAT Ballot Marking Devices, Other Systems Registration Systems Problems You May Encounter 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

Punchcard Systems Two styles: Votomatic and DataVote 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

Lever Systems 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

Optical Scan Precinct-based (PCOS) Centrally Counted (CCOS) 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

InkaVote Plus Used in Los Angeles for most precinct voting Uses an inked stylus Can be precint or central 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

DRE Voting Systems “full-face” vs “scrolling” machines Sequoia 1242 MicroVote Unilect ES&S Hart Sequoia Diebold 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

Ballot Marking Devices AutoMARK Populex 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

Others Vote-PAD: essentially a laminated template Has “nubs” next to holes Large page turning assists Can be used with existing optical scan IVS Inpsire: Can be used on phone In precinct audio Verification of paper via bar code scanner 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

Registration/Activation Systems DESI’s e-pollbook Card Activators ES&S PEB 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

Problems (General) Tamper-evident Seals Power outages, plug problems Should not be broken unless witnessed Power outages, plug problems Most have batteries, battery indicators Room configuration Should protect privacy of voters Modem problems If problem, don’t transmit 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

Problems (Opscan) Mis-calibration Can be overly-sensitive or not sensitive enough May require certain types of pen Central count does not provide feedback problematic for elderly, poor, uneducated and language and ethnic minorities Have ran out of memory, started to count backwards in the past. 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

Problems (DREs) Screen/scroll calibration problems Sensitivity (low or high), fingernails/objects System crashes, reboots Audio ballot problems, alt. language problems, incomplete/wrong ballots Memory cards are ballot boxes Full-face: buttons can fail, cast vote button Paperless: may lose votes, error messages are important 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

Problems (DREs w/ VVPAT) People do not examine VVPATs Any privacy guard, etc. should be off by default Printers can jam, misrecord, damage VVPAT Certain systems allow votes to be cast even though there are paper problems Loading paper wrong can mean no VVPAT Chain of custody problems Paper records can be official records 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

Problems (BMDs) Newer, can be a bit more raw Can crash, may take 10 mins. to reboot Ballots can be different size than opscan in precinct. Ballots can be counted at another time. Keypad problems Reports of AutoMARK keypads being bad 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5

Problems (Reg. Systems) Crashes, reboots Maryland had problems with syncing and frequent crashes. With DESI e-pollbook, use the mouse, not the touchscreen. Voter not on rolls, already voted May have to vote provisionally. 18 Oct 2006 (cc) 2006 by-sa/2.5