Hello,
I am new here. I have an idea for improving the voting method a
little. It would not cover all areas of voting, but it would be
directed at eliminating ballots with too many votes for a candidate,
and eliminating ballots with votes not cast for some choices on a
ballot. This would help to prevent votes getting thrown out, and also
vote tampering if something was not voted for. If you want me to
continue a little more I will. It is not complicated. It might be
less expensive than putting in all new voting machines. It might
partly eliminate the problem of hanging chads.
Yours Truly,
Lester Tinnin at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 22:48:41 EST, you wrote:
>D- To U.S.A. EM folks especially-- the below has a direct bearing on the
>semi-emergency necessity to get more accurate election methods.
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>D-
>U.S.A., State and local government spending in 1999 was
>$ 2,613.5 Billion noncapital spending
>$ 308.7 Billion gross capital investment
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>Data- Survey of Current Business, Jan 2001, pp. D-8, D-14.
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>Give me (and the rest of the U.S.A.) a break about the 10 year time period to
>upgrade voting machines.
>
>How much for paper ballots only and an emergency mobilization of the entire
>adult population to count / recount ballots on election night ???
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>Upgrading Voting Machines May Take 10 Years, USA Today Reports
>
>Washington, Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Industry officials estimate that replacing
>the nation's outdated punch-card voting machines can't be accomplished by the
>next presidential election in 2004, USA Today reported.
>
>Modernizing all of the voting equipment in the U.S. may take a decade,
>industry leaders told USA Today.
>
>``I don't think the industry is ready for the demand that is potentially
>going to come,'' Kimball Brace, a leading election consultant, told the
>newspaper. There are fewer than a dozen companies in the U.S. that
>manufacture voting equipment, the newspaper said.
>
>Congress may end up paying $2.5 billion in voting-machine upgrades, USA Today
>said. There are roughly 600,000 old punch-card and mechanical-lever voting
>machines in the U.S., according to the newspaper.
>
>Researchers are examining the issues surrounding the disputed punch-card
>ballots during the 2000 presidential election and how to improve the accuracy
>of voting machines. A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of
>Technology and the California Technical Institute is already working to
>develop better voting procedures and machines for the 2004 election.
>
>(USA Today 2/14 A1) For the USA Today Web site, type {USAT <GO>}.
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>Feb/14/2001 9:03 ET
