Is Hart InterCivic's eSlate a Better System?

Electronic Voting - A Non-Partisan Issue

Is Hart InterCivic's eSlate a Better System?

Austin Chronicle February 27, 2004

How Safe Is Your E-Vote?

Elections go digital, but experts fear a crash

By Lee Nichols

The complete article is currently (3/28/04) available on the Austin Chronicle website at-- http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-02-20/pols_feature.html [found through a Google search by article title on the same date]

Excerpt--

... Hart InterCivic morphed out of Hart Graphics, a printing company founded in 1912. ...

Hart's product is called the eSlate -- a small electronic tablet, of sorts, specialized for casting ballots in elections. In the summer of 2002, Travis Co. Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir purchased several hundred eSlates and gave them a successful trial run in the early voting period of the November 2002 elections. ...

Unlike Hart's major competitors, the eSlate does not use a touch screen. ...

Instead, eSlate uses a wheel-and-button system -- the voter turns a dial until the candidate of choice is highlighted, and then presses a button to select the candidate, never touching the screen. ...

Secondly, eSlate does not use "smart cards" ...

Perhaps most important, the eSlate system has no external connections -- no hookups to phone lines, the Internet, or an intranet. ...

[Read the original article for a discussion of the pros and cons of eSlate]

Lee Nichols is assistant news editor of the Austin Chronicle.

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