[ale] Its over. Maybe

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri Nov 5 08:35:03 EST 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 22:38, H. Bieber wrote:
> Receipts can also be used to get paid for your votes. Party X or candidate X tells people if you vote for me I will pay you $ or give you this gift, all you have to do is bring me your receipt. 
> 
> Nevada uses a system similar to ours, but their unit spits out a tape that you can look at and verify what you vote was, but then you fold it up and place it in a locked "ballot" box. If there is a verification needed, they can pull the vote counts from the units, and then compare them against the paper receipts you have put in the ballot box.
> 
> Harold

I like that method. All it needs is to be the electronic ink like on
checks for fast machine scanning and it can be the actual ballot
produced AND a hard copy record. In the last 20+ years I have never had
a check get processed by the wrong bank and they have been using that
method a long time.


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