Ballot styles

[Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul:

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:20:31 -0700, you wrote:

>Lou - that might work for a single issue election - like Boulder's upcoming
>March election.
>
>However, in the past November election there were 58 ballot styles over 227
>precincts. If you showed up in person they could get the BallotNow computer
>to print out your ballot style and off you would go.
>With the Swiss method they'd have to pick out all the colored slips (a
>rainbow full) for your ballot style while you waited.

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There is absolutely no reason the expensive Hart Undercivic computer could
not be reprogrammed (and some hardware added) to generate the appropriate
combination of colored slips for each elector.

They do something similar when they mail out those cumbersome ballots.  This
would, actually, be a lot easier to program.  A first-year computer science
student would be overqualified for the programming effort.


What I would want to see are ballots similar to the ones we used to vote:
serialized with perforations.  When you vote, the serial numbers go in one
pile and the anonymous ballot goes in another.

Yes, folks, I have a dream.

Ralph Shnelvar