A recent letter to the U.S. Congress and other elected officials from information quality professionals expresses concerns about the provisions of the 2002 Help America Vote Act (public law 107-252), which sets guidelines for replacing punch card or lever-type voting machines with electronic voting machines.
The letter asserts that a systems approach should address the process as a whole, not just the technology itself; that the election process yields vote counts as an information product; and that quality measures of information products reveal the effects of defects in a process, even if the causes aren’t yet known. Root causes can then be identified and corrected.
For more information, download www.votetrustusa.org/pdfs/IQ_on_VVSG_10-05-06.rtf.
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