Lou (et al),
Seemingly unbeknownst to most voters, bleed through has no impact on
the scanning process. The boxes from one side to the other do not
overlap. Not even close. The system is looking for marks inside the
boxes. Marks outside the boxes don't register at all.
However, your idea that white-out flakes could be the cause is
something to consider. The real test would be to collect some of this
offending "dust" and chemically analyze it. It bothers me that the
clerk's office would make such definitive pronouncements about what the
interfering material was. For all we know it could be ricin.
Paul Tiger
303.774.6383
Lou Puls wrote:
If I may add my modest comments to the ongoing blizzard, I would like
to ask WHY the highly informed, sincere, and reasonable CiITIZEN
Kolwicz was excluded from the PUBLIC machine- and procedure-testing
opportunities?
Also I would like to add an admittedly speculative comment to the
discussion of the "paper dust" mystery:
Perhaps among those many voters who tried using a felt-tip (black or
blue) pen to fill in the boxes, and who found to their horror that the
ink bled through to the opposite side of the ballot and decidedly
MARKED the other side (foolishly also to be scanned), and who were
unwillling or unable to obtain a fresh set of ballots, such voters
instead applied some white-out pigment or adhesive bits to the
offending bleed-through marks?
Have the likely flakes and bits of flotsam resulting from such an
ill-advised remediation become what are being termed the mysterious
"paper dust"? Even a ball-point pen (black or blue), if not
bleeding-through, produces a "looming"-through of a shadow-mark, which
a sensitive image scanner could easily acquire, encouraging such a
faulty remediation.
Lou
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Subject: RE: Boulder County's counting crawls
Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758
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