Reply #16: Some info on Lever machines [View All]

[roseBudd]

http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/pictures/#lever

Unfortunately, the mechanism of a lever voting machine maintains no independent record of each voter's ballot. Instead, the only record of a vote is the count maintained on the mechanical register behind each voting lever, where each register has a mechanism comparable to the odometer in a car. Not only is this vulnerable to tampering by the technicians who maintain the machine, but it means that the machine has an immense number of moving parts that are subject to wear and very difficult to completely test.

Actually Dr. Doug Jones' entire voting web site is very informative. This is the Doug Jones who gave the 7 page affidavit in response to the Triad interference with the recount in Hocking County, OH.