Text 6356, 44 rader
Skriven 2013-11-16 14:10:57 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.71)
   Kommentar till text 6351 av Joe Delahaye (14270.ftsc_pub)
Ärende: Questions for the candidates
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Joe Delahaye wrote to mark lewis:

 JD>   Re: Questions for the candidates
 JD>   By: mark lewis to Joe Delahaye on Fri Nov 15 2013 09:16:20 

 ML> our ballots are all processed electronically... one simply colors 
 ML> in a circle for their positive vote like is/was done on some tests 
 ML> in school... an empty circle is not counted as a negative or an 
 ML> abstain... marking anywhere else on the ballot, other than the 
 ML> given write-in area, is ignored... write-ins are tallied as 
 ML> write-ins and then the ballots have to be manually looked at to 
 ML> see who the write-in vote was for...

 JD> We dont do electronic voting in thius country.  Federal elections
 JD> are run by the Feds according to the federal rules, and not the
 JD> provincial rules and methods, although both may be the same.  As I
 JD> understand it, voting in the USA is done according to state rules
 JD> even for a federal election.

my use of "electronically" above was only related to the tally of the
ballots... i don't know how those numbers are sent to the central vote
collector... i believe that they are read from the machine at the end of the
voting period and then verbally confered to the central collector or sent via
some electronic means like email... the numbers tallied by the machine are
confirmed by a manual counting of the ballots in case of a recount...

 JD> However, marking a physical ballot, or changing its contents would 
 JD> create a spolied ballot here.  I find it strange that if you mark 
 JD> an electronic ballot in mannor other then required, it would 
 JD> simply be ignored.

what is "it"? the ballot is not ignored here... only the errant marking... if
it doesn't reside inside the circle, there's nothing for the machine to
detect... the machines align the ballot by special registration marks and then
count from there...

 JD> Granted the result would be the same as a spoiled ballot <G>

i think you misunderstood my comment about what was ignored ;)

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