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To: Amy J who wrote (128686)	11/17/2000 11:47:24 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582684

But the machines typically are a tough sell because most jurisdictions take an "if it's not broke, don't fix it," type attitude toward their voting machines Amy, I think there will be a change in attitude after this election. I don't believe anyone would want to go thru this kind of a mess again. ted

To: Amy J who wrote (128686)	11/17/2000 1:20:27 PM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 1582684

Dear Amy: Optically scanned ballot machines have at least two seperate markets, elections (like in my county of Jefferson, WI or Franklin, WI (part of Milwaukee County)), and education (they are used for multiple choice exams and are used in my school district (Oconomowoc and the schools I went to, Whitnall, and UWM, and at MSOE where my dad is a professor)). The education market is far bigger which drives the innovation higher and the cost per machine lower (economies of scale). Replacing voting machines and punched card systems with OSBs is much cheaper and is inherently less error prone (<1%) than voting machines (2%) or PCBs (5%) while giving you instant feedback on miss marked ballots (those were destroyed in my voting place (shred by cross cut machine) so they cannot be counted or used during audit(a good practice even for PCBs)). I suspect the cost to be far less as only one OSB scanner is needed per precinct rather than 5 to 25 voting machines. Voting machines also do not leave an auditable trail to check and/or verify ballot tallies. Replacing both PCBs and Voting Machines with OSB, probably will be 2 to 10% of the estimate you provided. Pete