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Yes it's the vote tallying machine that needs to be electronic, not necessarily the ballot that the voter fills out. But even then, it's harder to do ranked pa
by Houshalter 11y ago
Yes it's the vote tallying machine that needs to be electronic, not necessarily the ballot that the voter fills out.
But even then, it's harder to do ranked paper ballots. Presumably someone has to transcribe the numbers voters wrote on the ballot into a computer, which introduces room for mistakes and lots of work.
- thwarted 11y agoNone of that requires manually transcribing numbers. Here's what the ranked paper ballot looks like that we use in SF. This is entirely scanable by machine. http://californiawatch.org/files/imagecache/image-full-width/Ranked-choice-voting-sample-ballot_0.jpg http://californiawatch.org/files/imagecache/image-full-width... Notice that it says (hard to read in this image) in the second and third choice that the selection must be different from the other choices.
- Houshalter 11y agoAh, interesting way of doing it. Still a bit messy, and the size of the ballot could grow quadratically with the number of candidates.