[E-voting] Question on optical scan

[Aidan Delaney]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:33 +0000, evoting at stusoft.org wrote:
> > With regards to the number recognition problem, I think stickers are the
> > answer. With the ballot paper, the voter would be given one sheet of
> > stickers with unique numbers from one to the number of candidates running.
> 
> Would it not be simpler to have a matrix of candidates and preferences? Colour
> in the '1' box beside your first preference, the '2' beside your second etc.
> People would be well familiar with it from filling in Lotto slips. Machine
> could tell you immediately if it's not filled in correctly.
> 
> Stickers sound a little messy to me.
Me too.

...but a matrix is not possible as it would be impractical in a, say, 54
candidate election.  Each candidate would have to have 54 entries after
their name!
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Aidan Delaney   email: adelaney at cs.may.ie
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