EXHIBIT 31.2
        CERTIFICATIONS

| | I, Douglas H. Caszatt, Acting Chief Financial Officer and Controller of VendingData Corporation, certify that:
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| | a. | Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the small business issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;                                          
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| | b. | Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuers disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and                                                                                                                                     
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| | c. | Disclosed in this report any change in the small business issuers internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the small business issuers most recent fiscal quarter (the small business issuers fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the small business issuers internal control over financial reporting; and
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| | 5. | The small business issuers other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation, to the small business issuers auditors and the audit committee of small business issuers board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
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| | a. | All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuers ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
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| | b. | Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the small business issuers internal control over financial reporting.                                                                                               
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|Date:  August 10, 2004 |  | By: | /s/ Douglas H. Caszatt                                           
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|                       |  |     | Douglas H. Caszatt, Acting Chief Financial Officer and Controller

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