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This seems worse than scantron to me. An unaided human cannot read the QR code to verify it.
by mcculley 3y ago
This seems worse than scantron to me. An unaided human cannot read the QR code to verify it.
- echelon 3y agoI agree with you - we still have work to do. That said, if there's any suspected discrepancy between recorded choice and the QR code encoding, the ballots can be statistically sampled for divergence. Scantrons might be difficult to implement for ballots with lots ballot choices or lots of options. You'd want to maintain readability for those with poor eyesight. You probably don't want to hold up the line with people scanning the matrix to make sure it encodes the correct choices, either. I'm not sure what the optimal solution is here, but we are improving. No more "hanging chads".
- mcculley 3y agoWe have been using scantron ballots in Florida since 2002. (Statewide, that is. I think some counties were doing it before the reforms.) I can't imagine any ballot that would be hard to encode on them.