I wasn't trying to start a long thread about the folders., just making
an observation.
The way that they are supposed to work is that enough non-voting length
sticks out at the top to get sucked into the machine without showing your
votes. Indeed, there isn't, so far as I know, much privacy if the ballot
needs to be re-fed because it didn't read correctly. The person ahead
of me had to try three times, taking the sheet out of the reject slot
and putting it back in again.
The more candidates/issues on a side, the more likely thst the ballot will
grow to be too long for the folders. There are probably some kind of
standards about how large the type must be to make it readable by the most
people. We certainly don't need 8 point type on the ballots.
I'm a little surprised that just getting ballots copied at Kinko's would
work, given the likely requirements for length and ink colors. Not to
mention that the original sheets probably are numbered and need to be
accounted for. Just because Kinko's copier said that it made exactly 1,000
copies doesn't mean that it might not be off by 1 either way.
Bruce Gaarder
Highland Park Saint Paul
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