Reply #27: Please cite references.

[Bill Bored]

"New regs: Counting paper ballots forbidden"

"Most states prohibit elections officials from checking on optical scan tallies by examining the paper ballots."

Please cite references.

"In Washington, Secretary of State Sam Reed declared such spontaneous checkups to be 'unauthorized recounts' and prohibited them altogether."

Please cite reference.

"New Florida regulations will forbid counting paper ballots, even in recounts, except in highly unusual circumstances."

Florida??? Is that still one of the 50 states? Shouldn't be. But if it is, please cite reference.

You can't expect anyone to work to change their laws if you don't cite them.

And another thing: Why are these posts written like an ad for toothpaste? If you have some computer experts working on this stuff, let them publish their own work in a peer-reviewed journal somewhere. Or have the BOE come out with a press release!

You say, "The results of the memory card hack demonstration will assist elections supervisors throughout the U.S., by emphasizing the critical importance of accounting for each and every memory card and protecting access."

Really? How will this report be deseminated to them?

Don't you think they would kinda, sorta, keep track of their memeory cards NOW? (Not that there's anything wrong with additional safeguards.)