Dave Ketchum said: > If the computer stacks them neatly and they are kept that way, then if > Joe was the 6th voter I could find his ballot as 6th in the stack. In > NY, if paper ballots go in a ballot box, the contents are supposed to > be shuffled to prevent such looking.
I don't know if our machines here shuffle, but I don't think so. Still, there is a built-in privacy protection: Although we keep a record of who was the first, second, third, etc. person to RECEIVE a ballot, we keep no record of what order they COMPLETED a ballot in. Moreover, in many polling places there are multiple precincts voting in the same location here. Person #5 from precinct 3031 might submit his ballot to the same machine after person #7 from precinct 3032, and nobody would know. Having multiple precincts at one location might seem strange, but it's basically a way to divide the labor among the volunteers. A third of the voters will be the responsibility of one group of volunteers, a third will be the responsibility of another, and so forth. Alex ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
