[Sosfbay-discuss] [GPCA-MediaComm] [Fwd: no GP ballot at a polling place]

[Bert]

Wes,

You've hit on a perfectly valid argument in favor of touch screens.

Carrying a little water on this...suppose there were a touch screen 
system that didn't connect to some game-able network but simply printed 
out a ballot "with all the little ovals filled in".  So then the voter 
takes that printed ballot, verifies it by eye, and drops it in a box.

You make a mistake, a poll workers just shreds the printed ballot and 
you hit it again.

Saves County Registrars money, solves the problem of not enough paper 
ballots, and it is voter verifiable.

And, this makes no argument one way or another about central tabulating 
equipment (different worms, different can).

I wonder if anybody makes something like that. Better yet, let's form a 
Green Party company and start making one. Call it our entry into the 
10KV of electoral capitalism.

Bert

Wes Rolley wrote:
> FYI.  Here is another example of the "poor planning" type of error.  In 
> Alameda County, it was for Independents.  Here, for Greens, etc.
> 
> In general, I do not think that elections officials around the state 
> were prepared for the size of the turnout in a primary election.  I 
> think that this owes very much to the excitement that has been 
> engendered by the Obama campaign.  Election officials are caught between 
> having to adhere to ever shrinking budgets and being prepared for any 
> contingency.  It is reasonable to expect them to get it wrong some of 
> the time.
> 
> One of the reasons that elections officials around the country liked the 
> idea of computerized, touch-screen  voting, is the fact that it would 
> keep them from every having to be in this bind.  If they every figure 
> out the proper way to get it right on touch-screen voting, then they 
> should be very, very happy.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[Sosfbay-discuss] no GP ballot at a polling place
> Date: 	Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:31:05 -0800
> From: 	Jim Doyle <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>
> To: 	sosfbay discussion group <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
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> When Merriam went to vote last night, the polling place where she votes
> did not have Green Party ballots.
> She was able to vote using her sample ballot that she had with her.
> She plans to visit the ROV office tomorrow, Thursday, to complain.
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