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>> There's another problem, though. Voters can and sometimes do >> mark ballots in a way that a machine can't understand, but a >> human can. Circling the name instead of filling in the oval. >> Writing across the top "Straight Republican Ticket". Best answer >> I know of is to have the machine set any ballot aside that has >> marks outside the ovals, for a human to count. >> > > In France, we use a much simpler means. They give a paper per > candidate and une "enveloppe" (letter ?) per vote. So, at the end, > you just have to count the number of paper. It's very hard to do a > mistake. > With regards to writing "Straight Republican Ticket" across the top of a voting paper (That presumably has instructions with it). If the voter is too stupid to do what the instructions say, why should their vote count anyway? Conversely if this is to be supported why doesn't the voting paper simply have a selection for "All Republican". Damn... last time I vote (NZ) the voting paper explicitly said (In big bold black letting on white paper. Very hard to miss) words to the effect of, if you don't doit right it won't count... I didn't consider ticking boxes to be too difficult at the time... But I digress... Why anyone would want to build voting machines anyway is beyond me. Hand counts scale almost linearly. Build something useful (X10 control card?) H -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFER6/R/3QXwQQkZYwRAjdkAJ4gwIrnuC2SkYer0bCOWi5UIMdN0gCfYFdm OKttRleZwfmbjpFXv06Ghds= =5gd+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
