During the course of nine meetings held from February through May 1999, the Travis County Election Study Group made the following findings. Group support of the problem background. The study group supports the facts established in the problem background of this report. All factors listed are vital points to consider in the evaluation of a solution to the problem statement. Positive perception equals trust.
Perception is everything.
Travis County election officials have made a commitment to this community to implement an accurate and fair election process. Their objective is to produce the most open and accessible elections possible. However, as our electronic voting system appears to have reached its capacity, producing later and later results, the community perceives the voting process as unorganized, when the system is actually insufficient. A system that is unorganized leaves itself open to error. Thus, a system perceived as unorganized leaves itself open to criticism and the perception that errors are occurring.