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Why you don't want paper ballots
- Errors:
- By individuals:
- ambiguous ballot marks
- unintended under voting
- accidental over voting
- By officials:
- miscounted ballots
- misplaced ballots
- The attacks:
- By individuals:
- placing known invalid ballot in box
- ineligible voters
- fraudulent absentee voting
- By colluding officials:
- substituting ballots
- adding bogus (thus rejected) ballots
- discarding ballots
- Costs:
- specialized printing: average of 388 copies
for each of 2616 precincts in King County
- poll site monitoring
- Other (really, truely minor) problem:
ElectronicVoting/paper_problems.html
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Randolph Bentson,
on
2005/03/03T17:20:28-08:00