[E-voting] Re: Minimum requirement to judge voting "technology"

[John Bernard Lambe]

David GLAUDE, Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:41:58 +0200:
>I was told that in some country (Ireland - Maragaret could confirm)
use 
>paper voting and each paper ballot countain a unique number and that 
>number is recorded next to the voter name.

In Ireland, each ballot paper has a unique number printed on the back
of it, but these are not recorded.

The ballot papers, by law, should be handled in such a way that the
agents cannot see the numbers, except when the votes are emptied out of
the ballot box (when it is inevitable that some will be face down).
This law is often not adhered to, especially during recounts (I pointed
it out to counters once or twice, to no avail), when it is awkward to
show each ballot individually, while keeping them in sequence (as
required by law) without having one pile face down.



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