Eric Gorr wrote:
At 3:19 PM -0800 11/11/03, Alex Small wrote:
Lost in all this discussion is the incredible ease of the ballots which you fill in with a pen.
People are still quite error prone with this method as well, unfortunately.
It would not be uncommon to find more then one alternative selected when only one is expected...
It is not uncommon to find invalid vote... but there is no way to know if this was or not the intent of the voter.
of course, along with this would likely be some kind of attempt by the voter to correct the mistake which would then likely end up in front of a judge.
It is very easy to provide the voter with a second chance to vote if the pen slipped or the voter did check the wrong oval.
Just get out, say you made a mistake and ask for another virgin ballot. Your mistaken ballot get counted and distroy, you get a second chance to vote. However we need to make sure you don't do that trick too many time... so no 3rd chance!
Personally, I believe the greatest opportunity for error proof voting is use computer based voting.
Error proof is not the goal. Democracy is the goal (but I might be wrong on that one).
David GLAUDE
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