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Re: Improving the LAT (Re: Bad ballot markings)



One of the arguments in favor of the "Vote Marking" machines that Boulder County citizens asked the county to consider in the stead of DREs in December of last year is that they could produce uniform, unambiguous marks on paper ballots for voters of any ability.

Too bad no one in Boulder County thought in advance to test ambiguous marks or other variable conditions on the ballots, eh? (sarcasm)

Joe



On Nov 5, 2004, at 5:30 PM, Jan Kok wrote:

I think the ballot scanners should reject ballots that are ambiguously
marked, just as they reject ballots that have votes for more than one
candidate when only a single candidate may be voted for.

The scanners presently accept the tiniest mark inside an oval as a vote.
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