RE: ERC Public Hearing Tonight

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

Whenever there is a write-in there will be handling of ballots. Either that,
or what we have, which is reviewing images. But if the person didn't color
in the box for write-in, the computer can be set to ignore chicken scratches
on the write-in line.

One of the issues with how much time it takes to review is what is being
reviewed? If there is no filter set on what is on the ballots, than every
mark on them is an alert to review them. Or you could switch to only record
marks in the boxes as votes and ignore all other imagined marks on the
ballot. That might be nice.

The problem is that the law and the SoS rules what the elections division to
suss out every possible vote. And people who have served on a review or
canvass board can easily attest to bizarre scribbles that clearly are a
vote, but not recognizable by a computer.

So you have two masters to serve: a fast system or an accurate one?

An audit to me implies counting the number of ballots. Not a recount of the
tallies.

SG

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Eberle [mailto:m.eberle@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:24 PM
To: Some Guy
Cc: Lpboulder; Cvv-Discuss@Coloradovoter. Net
Subject: Re: ERC Public Hearing Tonight

Will someone please mention the following to the panel? In an election
with write-in candidates, every batch of ballots that has even one
write-in vote will need input from the resolution team. This approach
is not efficient and will definitely slow the counting.

I hope everyone saw the article on p. 1 of today's Daily Camera saying
that we will have some hand-count checking of the March 8 results.
Yeah, team!

Some Guy wrote:

> The Boulder County Elections Review Committee will have a public hearing
at
> the Longmont Senior Center this evening at 6:30pm.
> 910 Longs Peak - Longmont
> 3 blocks west of Main (Hwy 287) on Longs Peak (the 700 block of Main).
>
> SG
>
>
>
> .
>


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