http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/colloq/
Jones Talk, Slide 12
- Problem: Deliberate civil rights abuse
-- There were isolated incidents.
-- Not a computer science issue.
- Problem: Bad human factors in voting systems
-- Record number of presidential candidates.
-- Butterfly ballot, 2-page ballot, 2-column ballots all bad!Easy ballot access caused problems; no voting technology is immune when the list of candidates for one office is too long to fit in the space available.-- New technologies do not eliminate these problems.
- Problem: Bad administration of voter list updates
-- One-time subcontract for what should be routine work.
-- Strange answers to subcontractor objections.
- Problem: Bad voter education
-- Any change of voting technology requires training.
-- Record number of new voters in 2000.
-- Florida spends more per year on lottery promotion!
-- These problems not unique to Florida!
- Problem: Excessive Informality
-- Informal management may usually be good business.
-- Informal management is bad in safety critical activities.
-- For our purposes, voting should be seen as safety critical!
- Problem: Poor Standards
-- Recounts differed by as much as 1 in 200.
-- Recount accuracy is the gold standard for voting systems!