Jonathan Not a bad solution at all Jonathan, although there is a lack of transparency to any electronic count for the average citizen - and IRV/STV counting methods are virtually impossible to audit with anything less than a 100% manual count and are virtually impossible to accurately manually count in some election contests.
But I like this solution for any alternative voting method that does not have all the other severe flaws of the IRV/STV method. Ballot level auditing does have certain challenges as you mention. Kathy On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Jonathan Lundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > BTW, it seems to me that there's a relatively straightforward solution in > principle to the problem of computerized vote counting, based on the use of > separate data-entry and counting processes. Let voters vote on paper, either > by hand or with an electronic marking machine, enter the ballot data, > perhaps by scanning, in such a way that the resulting ballot data can be > verified by hand against the paper ballots, and permit counting by multiple > independent counting programs. > > There are nontrivial details to be resolved, in particular ballot secrecy > and the resolution of conflicting results, but it seems to me that it's a > fairly contained set of problems. > -- Kathy Dopp The material expressed herein is the informed product of the author Kathy Dopp's fact-finding and investigative efforts. Dopp is a Mathematician, Expert in election audit mathematics and procedures; in exit poll discrepancy analysis; and can be reached at P.O. Box 680192 Park City, UT 84068 phone 435-658-4657 http://utahcountvotes.org http://electionmathematics.org http://electionarchive.org How to Audit Election Outcome Accuracy http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/VoteCountAuditBillRequest.pdf History of Confidence Election Auditing Development & Overview of Election Auditing Fundamentals http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/History-of-Election-Auditing-Development.pdf Voters Have Reason to Worry http://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
