Reply #23: I really LOVE those L&A tests, parallel testing, etc.

[Land Shark]

Land Shark's evil twin spends at least an hour a day L"M"FAO because the election officials run all these test decks but the way the evil twin "helps" the elections are all totally unaffected by test decks and pass all such inane, gradeschool "tests".

EXAMPLE: on the touch screen, press a sequence of locations over and above certain letters (so it's easy to find those locations) on the main voter-boot screen, and that will have the effect of flipping the number of votes that is equal to 20 times the number of touch screen presses that occur within ten seconds after the fourth press overall is completed. e.g., Presses 1-3 specify to activate the subroutine buried in the source code, and the fourth specifies which race to affect, with 0-9 specifying the first ten races from the top of the ticket on down, and then typing in 30 in the fifth and sixth positions would flip 600 votes. Probably not a good idea to flip 600 since individual machines don't do that many in a day.

Thinking L&A tests are somehow a protection is as illogical as counting all 52 blackjack "21" cards and verifying that there are 4 aces, 4 deuces, etc., and then concluding that there's no way the game could be rigged by Marked cards. (e.g. marks on the backside of the card that indicate identity of the card)

If you think about it, tests decks are something that would be marginally useful to detect scanner error in op-scans. And that's about it.