[E-voting] Question on optical scan

[Stuart Mc Bride]

Quoting Aidan Delaney <adelaney at cs.may.ie>:

> 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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