At 11:46 PM 2/1/2007, Brian Olson wrote: >Here's a data point on scanners: >http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?displayTab=O&storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=93888&catGroupId=13856&surfModel=KV-S3105C >100 page scans per minute with 1000 page feeder, $1300. Definitely not bad. > >Then it's just a simple matter of writing good OCR software to read >the ballots.
Any fax machine should be able to do a clean enough scan. And they come with document feeders. A single fax should be able to keep up with the votes as they are cast, even in a busy precinct. (Those would be backup scans, they would not be coded, so they could be used to detect fraud in subsequent processing.) (And they would be faxed in batches large enough and shuffled to avoid voter identification through sequence.) ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
