[E-voting] Question on optical scan

[Timothy Murphy]

On Thursday 20 January 2005 13:56, Dr J Pelan wrote:

> > My own reaction to the last count I attended (at the RDS) was "This
> > can't be the best way to do it", and I believe that was the reaction of
> > most people there.
>
> Consider this reaction; "This is great! I can watch the election count!"

Were you there (at the RDS)?
My thoughts at the beginning were more or less along the lines you suggest,
as I think were most people's -
"This is a great occasion. This is democracy at work."
But 7 hours later the universal response among those I spoke to was,
"There has to be a better way."

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