RE: precincts vs. polling locations.

["Paul Tiger - LPBC - Outreach" <LPBC-O@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ya get different stories every time you call. Its like a fruit machine. And
I am wrong a lot.
But I'm not wrong about what the law says on posting a precincts...

On this topic I do know something. What Paul C. is referring to is called
ballot style and there were like 58 styles distributed amongst the 227
precincts. When we did the mail ballot election in 03 picking the ballot for
the right voter was tedious indeed. With only one person pulling ballots
allowed in the vault at one time and a caller outside the door. All the
ballots were selected for envelopes that way - no computer sorting.

Many of the systems that we looked at had the ability of producing a ballot
on an inkjet or laser printer from an electronic poll-book. All very
interesting, but the committee was looking at other specification that had
nothing to do with ballot tallies.
I've been led to understand that the system that the clerk now has can print
ballots on demand. If so then the next step would be to network the ballot
printers so that they can share a database; then anyone can vote anywhere.
And fraud is defeated at the polls.

Let's face it, computer networking for anything to do with election is just
not going to fly

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul E Condon [mailto:pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 9:04 AM
To: cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: precincts vs. polling locations.

But why?

You cannot vote at one of the three polling locations unless they find
you in the computerized roster of voters and print a ballot for you to
vote on, a ballot whose content is determined by the precinct you
reside in. So, they know, as best they will ever know, what pricinct
you belong to. For traditional voting, there is, associated with every
precinct, a polling location. If they want to report results by polling
location, why not call the breakdown a breakdown by polling location.

Maybe there is a law that requires them to call it a precinct breakdown,
even though it is not.

In the precinct where I was a judge, there were three distinct types of
ballots. Two tiny parts of the precinct had some special tax district
issues that were not on the ballot for the bulk of the voters. It seems
to be that the breakdown should be at the ballot-type level, below the
precinct level. But again, maybe there is a law.


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