= Сообщение: 247 из 7128 ======================================= FTSC_PUBLIC = От : mark lewis 1:3634/12.71 17 Nov 13 10:15:47 Кому : Joe Delahaye 17 Nov 13 10:15:47 Тема : Questions for the candidates FGHI : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=1:3634/12.71+288df020 На : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=14278.ftsc_pub@1:249/303+16ed9c4d = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== ============================================================================== On Sat, 16 Nov 2013, Joe Delahaye wrote to mark lewis:
ML> my use of "electronically" above was only related to the tally of ML> the ballots... i don't know how those numbers are sent to the ML> central vote collector... i believe that they are read from the ML> machine at the end of the voting period and then verbally confered ML> to the central collector or sent via some electronic means like ML> email... the numbers tallied by the machine are confirmed by a ML> manual counting of the ballots in case of a recount...
JD> Am I then mistaken in thinking that your state does electronic JD> voting using those voting machines that apparently can be hacked JD> with ease?
yes, you are mistaken... i stated that we mark the ballot to fill in the circle like is done in some school tests (eg: SATs)... when i first took these types of tests, we had to use a #2 pencil but these days we can use black or blue ink as well as #2 pencil...
JD> If not is it like the old Florida type ballot with 'hanging tabs' JD> or whatever they called them. I was there for that election <G>
hanging chad... no... those are where you punch a hole as one does with a hole punch to put paper in a ring binder...
ML> what is "it"? the ballot is not ignored here... only the errant ML> marking... if it doesn't reside inside the circle, there's nothing ML> for the machine to detect... the machines align the ballot by ML> special registration marks and then count from there...
JD> Thus the ballot is ignored if there is no proper marking. JD> Meaning, it is not counted.
only if the circle is not filled in and then only that entry is "ignored"... not the whole ballot...
ML> i think you misunderstood my comment about what was ignored ;)
JD> Perhaps not. In any case this has gone further then I intended, so JD> I will stop at this point, so we can get back on topic for THIS JD> echo.
yeah, ya did misunderstand but that's ok... i agree with you on the topicality aspect, too, now that i realize that this is in FTSC_PUBLIC and not another area where i thought it was... my apologies to the moderator and other participants...
