[E-voting] Question on optical scan

[Margaret McGaley]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:42:44PM +0000, Brian O'Byrne wrote:
> Quoting Margaret McGaley <Margaret.McGaley at redbrick.dcu.ie>:
> 
> > With regards to the number recognition problem, I think stickers are the
> > answer.
> 
> A variation on this theme that would overcome most of the concerns I raised:
> Have a sheet of transfers instead of stickers. Have a box beside each candidate.
> Place a transfer above that box and scratch to transfer it onto the ballot.
> Being simple ink instead of a sticker it cannot be removed and cannot stick
> things together. It can be dry and indelible instantly.
> 

OOoh, I like that :)

As it turns out, Cambridge Massachusetts and San Francisco California have
used optical scan systems for their ranked ballot voting methods (one of the
American names for PR). I'm working on finding out what the ballots themselves
looked like.

Margaret

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