[E-voting] Question on optical scan

[Noirin Plunkett]

> 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.

Another variation that would allow for the voter changing their vote
before they left the booth (for example, if they realise they've put
#1 in the box above where they meant it) would be to have
not-very-gummy stickers (so they're easily removed & replaced), and
then a layer of 'contact'[1], affixed to the ballot at the top. Once
you're happy with your ballot (and you've scanned it if you want to be
certain), you take the backing off the contact, put it over the
ballot, and hey-presto, an immutable, human-readable record of your
vote.

I do worry that these solutions are getting towards the impractical
and silly tho =(

Noirin
[1] 'contact' is the name I know for the clear plastic sticky stuff,
often used to protect schoolbook covers etc...