Down here in the land of Compuslory Voting, as you receive your ballot paper
to mark, they locate you on the electoral roll and mark you present.
After its all over, somebody collates it all , and those who didn't vote get
a please explain why we shouldn't fine you .
Of course our numbers are much smaller than yours...even with 95%
participation.
jp in Oz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Bixby" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: a working voting system


> Dave Oksner wrote:
> > I still think that the system we use in San Luis Obispo, CA is one of
the
> > best I've ever used.  It's basically scantron.  Fill in the bubble, feed
it
> > into a machine.  Electronic tallying with a voter-created paper trail.
>
> Here in Orange County we are using the eSlate voting system
> (http://www.ocvote.org/eslate/how_to_vote.htm) for the first time.
>
> I got to demo one at the county fair last summer, and casting my actual
vote
> this morning was painless.
>
> Some of the hacking scenarios (for electronic voting in general) that I've
read
> in the general press have been rather ridiculous.  But there is no paper
audit
> trail with eSlate, so you wonder what procedures the registrar of voters
is
> going to follow in the event there is a "problem".
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