On 04/29/2012 04:48 AM, Dave Ketchum wrote: > Computers do well at performing the tasks they are properly told to > perform - better than humans given the same directions. Thus it would > make sense to direct the computers and expect them to do what is > needed accurately. > > Still, we sometimes wonder exactly what the computers have been told to do.
In my original suggestion THAT aspect of "verifiability" is covered by the notion that if all ballots are made a public record, independent programmers could perform whatever algorithm is the counting-method against the input. If 1000 members of EM (or one media outlet like CNN) got a different result than the vote-counting authority published, we'd know there was a counting error in the "official" computer code. And that would happen within minutes, not weeks. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
