Reply #327: They do not have it in anywhere near production mode

[jimmynochad]

I have seen all of the so-called printer concepts from the three above vendors. ESS is mimicking their idea from Avante. Lou Dedier was SOS tester for Avante's system. Lou quits in October to work for ESS. Lou develops paper record system. It is still in prototype mode. Diebold had system that printed record but no "idiot proofing", to use Bev's term. The record had a time stamp on it. This is no good because I could use it to trace back to the voter. If you read the Santa Clara contract, Sequoia would have to develop the paper record and recertify it. I have talked to Wyle and they would not certify a system that prints the paper in a way that would allow the voter to possibly take it out of the polling place. This violates even the 1990 FEC standards.

Theresa LePore must have seen the Avante system (they were in Florida at one point - I was told Avante was denied certification because the paper record was told to be illegal). She wanted it as an option but was talked down by the vendors' lobby efforts.