At 4:02 PM -0600 11/3/06, Douglas W. Jones wrote:
>On Nov 2, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Arthur Keller wrote:
>
>> 1. All touchscreen voting machines should allow recalibration in the
>> middle of a ballot session. This way, the voter can complete the
>> process correctly.
>
>I'd hate for this to involve the pollworker coming anywhere near the
>voting booth.
>
>So, what we need is a recalibration operation that is trivial for the
>voter. One way to do this is to routinely have displays that call for
>the voter to touch corners of the display (put the next button on the
>lower left corner, the back button on the upper right, for example), and
>take pokes at those buttons as calibration hints.
I agree with Doug's comment in theory. But in practice, the
pollworker is usually called over to investigate the problem. One
problem is that one voter may recalibrate a voting machine
intentionally incorrectly towards the end of a voting session and
thereby mess up subsequent voters. So if a voter recalibrates a
voting machine, there needs to be a mechanism whereby a pollworker to
recalibrate the voting machine prior to the next voter using that
machine.
Best regards,
Arthur
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