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Just PRINT the ballotJust PRINT the ballotPosted Sep 15, 2002 1:44 UTC (Sun) by Baylink (subscriber, #755)In reply to: Just PRINT the ballot by pflugstad Parent article: Where free software should be required by law Indeed, Pete. Apparently, gswoods hasn't ever voted -- you've *always* walked away from the booth with a readable ballot (although perhaps you had to hold it up to a voting machine to read it, but... *My* personal approach was, indeed, to separate the ballot *validation* from the accelerated electronic *counting* by... Numbering the races, lettering the candidates (1A - Janet Reno, 1B - Bill McBride), etc, on the voting screen, and then, once the ballot is accepted, *print it out on Polaroid SX-70 film, in OCR font, without the candidate names*, show the voter a screen *with both codes and candidate names*, and then let them compare and approve. Once they do, they drop the film in a scanner at the table, and it adds the vote to the totals, making a noise and updating a ballot totalizer counter. It then drops into a locked box, with a slot too small to reach into. Say, an ammo box with a replacement cover. At the end of the night, you plug each counter into a phone line box, and like ET, it phones home. Simple, reasonably hard to screw with -- it even gives you *something to recount* (say it with me now: "a vote is a physical object") -- and the only *problem* with it is Sequoia Votings Systems will only make about 1/3 as much money. But who knows, maybe it's just me.
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