Re: bar code bit encoding

Adechert@aol.com wrote:
|> btw (especially since that $20 might cost us 50 hours of
|> programmers' time).
|>
|But there are 200,000 polling places in the USA -- we need probably at least
|two (one plus a back up) for each polling place. So people looking at the
|system will be multiplying this figure.

Nah... these polling places are spending $3k+ on each machine now; a few
extra dollars on a better quality scanner doesn't even enter the
picture.

In any case, a hand-held scanner will -absolutely- not be acceptable in
production machines. I have doubts about it for the demo too, but it
MIGHT work for that. But for real-life use, a fixed scanner is a
requirement (it's largely for blind voters, after all; they will have
difficulty operating some cheap hand-held thing).

|Not to put too fine a point on it, but the write-ins can be ocr-scanned.

Exactly... by looking at its face.

--
---[ to our friends at TLAs (spread the word) ]--------------------------
Echelon North Korea Nazi cracking spy smuggle Columbia fissionable Stego
White Water strategic Clinton Delta Force militia TEMPEST Libya Mossad
---[ Postmodern Enterprises <mertz@gnosis.cx> ]--------------------------
==================================================================
= The content of this message, with the exception of any external 
= quotations under fair use, are released to the Public Domain    
==================================================================