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Colorado: New Problems Found with Hart Intercivic |
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By Warren Stewart, Director of Legislative Issues and Policy, VoteTrustUSA
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October 08, 2005 |
According to an article
published yesterday in Colorado, the Hart Intercivic cannot be trusted
to properly read ballots where a fold passes through a ballot item. The
problem was discovered the glitch Thursday while running ballots
through Hart InterCivic scanners during a test when folds running
through ballot items caused the scanners to misread seven of the 429
test ballots incorrectly.
Colorado Voting activist Joe Pezzillo is quoted in the article. He
fought the Boulder County’s purchase of the Hart equipment and
supported scrapping it after last year’s rocky election, said he is
disappointed that a system that is supposedly ideal for mail-ballot
elections cannot read ballots that are folded and mailed. “This is what
it’s good at. This is the kind of functionality we get when it’s
working at its best,” he cracked. “This is the type of foible people
encounter when they don’t know how to analyze a voting system for
purchase.”
An excellent Usability Study on the Hart Intercivic was prepared last
year by Kevin Hughes for Safe Vote Hawaii. It is available here.
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