Talk:Certification of voting machines
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[edit] Cleanup
I'd like to start cleanup here... the previously tested systems has to go (it's not particularly relevant at an encyclopedic level). The history is a little disjoint (no mention of 1990 standards). -- Joebeone (Talk) 01:50, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
- You should have seen it before... I agree that previously tested systems should be deleted, but I didn't want to remove content withing getting a consesus first. It's not relevant here, but maybe we could find another article for it at some point in the future. I think the history I wrote was fairly complete. There was no such reference to any real history before (just a small attemp with major innacuracies). I did leave out the line actually saying the title of the 1990 standards, but I did say that they worked on the standards for 6 years starting in 1984 and I even reference "the initial Voting System Standards" in the first sentence of the next section. But yes, thank you for adding that line.
- Ideally, long-term, I'd love to have articles for individual vendors and machines. I think it would be a great public service. Joebeone, I think maybe this would be something you would be interested in too. It would take what we've done with DRE voting machine and Electronic voting to the next step. I think it would be helpful to have maybe a general election jargon or glossary page with undervote, overvote, marksense, etc. 68.50.103.212 10:46, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
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- I like the idea of having pages for voting systems. I wrote the information sheets for the EFF and will do an update to them this year including more than just DREs. I've got tons of system-specific knowlege and tons of images. This may take a while as I was planning the sheets update for the summer. best and great work, -- Joebeone (Talk) 19:47, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Useless section title
Why is one of the sections titled "Work of Roy Saltman"? Very odd to reference this man's name and then two paragraphs with no mention of him at all. Retitle the section to focus on the task force and report that *are* discussed in it?
- Roy Saltman is the father of federal research in the area of voting systems. He worked for NIST and now is an independent researcher, still a leading academic in this field. Maybe you didn't notice, but the section discusses two publications Effective Use of Computing Technology in Vote-Tallying and Voting System Standards: A Report on the Feasibility of Developing Voluntary Standards for Voting Equipment Roy Saltman (as noted in the references) authored both of those surveys. - Electiontechnology 08:13, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
