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Skriven 2006-11-03 23:57:08 av John Beamish (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 13697 av Doug Bryce (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: How to steal an election by hacking the vote
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From: "John Beamish" <JLBeamish@rogers.com>

Not quite.

Each ballot (in the book of 25 ballots) has the ballot itself and two
perforated "stubs" (for lack of a better word).  Those stubs have a number but
a number is not on the ballot itself.  The physical layout is something like
this:

1.  Stub with a number.  This stub is stapled into the book. 2.  Perforation
3.  Stub with the same number
4.  Performation
5.  Ballot

When you arrive and have successfully identified yourself:

1.  Your name is crossed off on the voter's list. 2.  You get 3/4/5 with the
ballot folded in such a way as to hide the ballot but leave the numbered stub
exposed. 3.  You unfold, mark your ballot and refold it leaving the number
exposed but hiding the ballot.
4.  You give the folded 3/4/5 back to the poll clerk. 5.  The poll clerk
removes the stub (3) and discards it. 6.  You put the ballot in the box.
7.  A tick mark is made next to your name to indicate that you have cast a
ballot.

Note that at no time is the number on the stub equated to an individual.

At the end of the day, the number of ballots cast must equal the number of
people who had names crossed off the voter's list.

At the end of the day, the number of ballots cast plus the number of spoiled
ballots must equal the number of ballots pulled from the books of ballots.

By the way, during counting, a ballot may be rejected (note:  spoiled ballots
happen *before* they go into the box; rejected ballots happen during counting)
if there is any way to potentially identify which ballot was cast by a
particular voter.


On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:40:59 -0500, Doug Bryce <doug.bryce@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 23:15:37 -0500, "Geo" <georger@nls.net> wrote:
>
>
>> What I do have a problem with is the election people keeping track of
>> names
>> and ballot numbers so they can tell HOW you voted, the vote should be
>> anonymous, who voted for which candidate is not the kind of information
>> that
>> should be available to the government..
>
> Well...up here in Ontario our ballots are also numbered and that
> number is recorded against our name -- to ensure that all ballots are
> acounted for (and I suppose so that if there ever was a question, you
> could be contacted to confirm that you did in fact vote).  But...the
> number is on a perforated strip which is removed in your presence when
> you return the ballot, and the ballot is then given back to you to
> place into the ballot box.  No indentifying information on the ballot
> itself.
>
> Doug
>
>>
>>
>

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