[E-voting] Question on optical scan

[Catherine Ansbro]

I like this option, too.  You'd need to make sure there was consistent 
darkness on the transfers.  Some people are inclined to use very little 
pressure and that could create lots of inaccuracies.

I still worry about "reading"  with a machine, and counting with a machine.
Catherine

Margaret McGaley wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:42:44PM +0000, Brian O'Byrne wrote:
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>>Quoting Margaret McGaley <Margaret.McGaley at redbrick.dcu.ie>:
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>>>With regards to the number recognition problem, I think stickers are the
>>>answer.
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>>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.
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>OOoh, I like that :)
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>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.
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>Margaret
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