Mueller Lake Park Outdoor Amphitheater
What About New Voting Machines?
RECEIVED Fri., Aug. 22, 2003
When are the citizens of Austin going to be given some information about how to use the new election machines that we have heard are going to be used?
Also, what kind of audit trail do these machines have? For example, if we should have an electrical failure during the voting process, what mechanism is in place to preserve the record of the votes already cast? Or, if we should need a recount, what kind of paper trail will we have to back up the computerized record?
Also, what kind of audit trail do these machines have? For example, if we should have an electrical failure during the voting process, what mechanism is in place to preserve the record of the votes already cast? Or, if we should need a recount, what kind of paper trail will we have to back up the computerized record?
Sincerely,
Betty Strohm
Betty Strohm
[Ed. note: The machines have already been explained – and used. Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir conducted an extensive voter-education program on the machines in 2002 and used them for early voting in the November 2002 elections and for the entire spring 2003 municipal elections. On Election Day, election officials teach the unfamiliar how to use the machines. For more information, we recommend you go to www.co.travis.tx.us/elections or call 238-VOTE. For more information on the county's answers (or lack thereof) to your other questions, go to austinchronicle.com and do a search on the term "eSlate."
