Re: [OT] Vote!
Re: [OT] Vote!
- Subject: Re: [OT] Vote!
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:13:32 -0700
On Aug 18, 2005, at 5:55 AM, deivy petrescu wrote:
If we are talking about a Scandinavian country with 6 million
people, may be computers are not so important. But the US has about
300.000.000 people, India has around 600.000.000 voters and in the
last election in Brazil there were about 100.000.000 voters. This
is more than the whole population of GB (more than 1.6 times).
Computers are necessary.
Not if all votes are counted at the precinct. It's not the number of
voters, but the number of ballots being counted by each vote-
counter. It takes four people counting 1000 votes in batches of 25
as it takes one person counting 250 votes in batches of 25.
Add a minute or two to add the four totals, and presto.
We use OCR voting machines in the county where I live. After the
polls close, the machine is connected to a telephone line and it
sends the results to the district headquarters using its built-in
modem. Then the machine's memory unit is taken to the district
headquarters. And a different courier carries the paper ballots to
the headquarters.
If the total via modem and in the memory unit are not the same, the
ballots are read through the machine again; if there is still a
discrepancy, they are hand counted. If the race is close, the
ballots are hand counted. If a candidate challenges the results, the
ballots are hand counted.
-- Michelle
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| | >Re: Vote! (From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Vote! (From: deivy petrescu <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Vote! (From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re:[OT] Vote! (From: deivy petrescu <email@hidden>) |