Is parallel testing an effective method of assuring the accuracy of electronic voting machines?
“Parallel testing, which is intended to uncover malicious attack [sic] on a system, involves testing a number of randomly selected voting stations under conditions that simulate actual Election Day usage as closely as possible, except that the actual ballots seen by ‘test voters’ and the voting behavior of the ‘test voters’ are known to the testers and can be compared to the results that these voting stations tabulate and report… Note also that Election Day conditions must be simulated using real names on the ballots (not George Washington and Abe Lincoln), patterns of voter usage at the voting station that approximate Election Day usage (e.g., more voters after work hours, fewer voters in mid-afternoon, or whatever the pattern is for the precinct in question), and setting of all system clocks to the date of Election Day.
