#TYT SCREEN RECORDEE MANUAL#

'The voter can verify contest choices on the Verify Selections screen before printing the card.

#TYT SCREEN RECORDEE MANUAL#

The ExpressVote training manual is equally unclear, describing the 'post print verification' of the 'summary cards' as 'optional' and stating that the machines can drop the cards directly into a bin without voter verification: And then someone else said that you had to do it on the screen otherwise there would be an issue.' 'What she had told me was that you had to print the card in order to review your selections, and then when I was standing there, I heard another election worker tell another individual that you can do it on the screen or on the card. One voter told local reporter Shayla Patrick, for Fox 4 News of Kansas City, about his experience with a county election worker: In Johnson County, poll workers apparently gave conflicting instructions as to whether voters should undertake such a review. This is problematic because a manual audit or manual recount is the only means to verify the legitimacy of electronic vote totals, since ES&S and other private vendors block forensic analysis of their equipment based on the ' proprietary' nature of the software.ДЄ further issue is that the results of any such manual audit or recount would be unreliable due to the inability to know whether voters reviewed the text to verify that the machine didn't print the wrong selections or omit some races entirely. Thus, Kansas is unlikely to use the text in a manual audit or manual recount. Voters can't read barcodes, nor can they know how the machine is programmed to print or interpret barcodes.'ДЄlthough the 'summary cards' also include computer-generated text, Kansas (like many states) does not require manual audits and will fund a candidate's request for a recountonly if the margin of the victory is less than 0.5 percent. The Johnson County voter has no idea what vote they actually cast. Marilyn Marks, executive director of the Coalition for Good Governance (which spearheaded the still-pending paper-ballot suit in Georgia), told TYT that 'the official vote that is counted is a barcode-not a human-readable vote. The barcode, which humans can't read, and thus can't verify, is the only part of the summary card that is then scanned and counted as your vote.

As reported by the Shawnee Mission Post in May, the ExpressVote produces a paper 'summary card' containing a computer-generated barcode. Before the board of county commissioners accepted Metsker's recommendation, election-integrity advocates and independent computer science experts expressed serious concerns about the security of these machines. The recommendation to buy these machines came from Johnson County Election Commissioner Ronnie Metsker, who Kobach appointed in January 2016. More than a week later, ES&S has yet to explain the precise cause of the problem. Johnson County later explained that the problem involved its new ExpressVote touchscreen barcode ballot-marking system, made by Election Systems & Software, LLC ('ES&S').

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