[E-voting] Question on optical scan

[Ryan Meade]

> Does anyone have a scanner that came with OCR software? Give it a whirl
> with a sheet of numbers that you write out by hand. I think you might be
> surprised at how accurate it is.

It would be interesting to confront a modern OCR system with a real-world sample of Irish ballots - I suspect it would perform quite well.  Ballots are usually filled out quite clearly, and any ballots I've seen which might present an OCR system with a problem would be considered 'doubtful' under our current system anyway.