Please Consider That At Least Eleven States Do Some Hand Counting of Paper Ballots

Wilms

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Thu Nov-20-08 01:16 AM
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Please Consider That At Least Eleven States Do Some Hand Counting of Paper Ballots

Ten of them are:

Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin.

But, nationally just under 1 percent of total votes cast are Hand Counted.

(.pdf) http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/uploadedFiles/Election%20Preview%20FINAL.pdf

In addition, New York currently hand counts ballots generated by ballot markers deployed to meet accessibility requirements, though it remains to be seen if many voters will use them.

Perhaps other states have Hand Counted ballot classes missed by this survey.

While slightly less than a percent of cast ballots are Hand Counted nationally, perhaps many more jurisdictions could as easily do so. And it may well make economic $ense for most of them.

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galloglas

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Fri Nov-21-08 07:09 PM
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1. Add Missouri !

at last count, we still had six counties which hand count

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Bill Bored

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Sun Nov-23-08 03:18 AM
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2. I'm sure a lot of states have some counties that count absentees by hand. nt

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Wilms

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Tue Jan-06-09 03:16 AM
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3. That's why I wrote * at least *.

But since HAVA doesn't require machines, and many jurisdictions still HCPB, and even more could be, and lots of people are out of work, I say count paper ballots by hand.

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WillYourVoteBCounted

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Tue Jan-06-09 07:12 PM
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4. NC lists Hand Counted Paper Ballots as a certified system

but no county has wanted to use that as their voting system, but we do have audits and recounts.

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