except for the vote flipping which I saw before my own eyes as I was voting, but in aggregate that there are likely to be problems.
I truly appreciate all the great work that election workers do[- esp in our own Travis County. Eslate machines do have documented problems with straight ticket voting and vote flipping.
I had problems with both having a vote flip and in that last election getting a vote to record. The last was probably partly my fault but took 3 fixes to get my vote recorded correctly and not everyone is as picky as I am about going over summary pages. A reason among many that I am not fond of the machines.
I'll dig up links if you want, but you may know as much or more as I do about all this and that's why you are such a great judge.
Here is one link http://static.usenix.org/event/evt07/tech/full_papers/proebstel/proebstel_html/
4.1.8 Printing Extra Barcodes
Disrupting communication between the eSlate and the VBO could cause the VBO to print unauthorized data. Specifically, communication is disrupted (for example, by the eSlate being rocked slightly in its casing) immediately after the VBO has printed a ''Ballot Accepted'' message and accompanying barcode, but before the VBO has begun to scroll this page out of sight, the VBO will print a second ''Ballot Accepted'' message and barcode. Disrupting the communication again repeats the printing. The result is a paper trail with a ballot followed by several ''Ballot Accepted'' messages and barcodes.
If election officials read the human-readable ballots from the VBO records, this string of barcodes will be baffling (and, perhaps, suggest either machine failure or malicious activity) but will not likely affect the tally. However, in counties which use barcode-scanners to read the VBO records, these repeated barcodes (if undetected) effectively allow a voter to cast an indeterminate number of identical ballots--the electronic equivalent of ballot box stuffing.
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