Collated ballots

[jack]

Fanf links to a post I'd forgotten, http://fanf.livejournal.com/120445.html

He suggests a useful compromise would be a machine which manually collates ballots into stacks. I think weight is a red herring -- it could presumably produce stacks of a 100 for each candidate, or similar, and a cursory check could then ensure that a random sample of stacks have exactly the right number.

This would have most of the benefits of the current system, but reduce the manual effort?

I've never seen votes being counted, is that about right?

Comments

[ceb]

Yes, that would definitely help. (In fact it's a two-stage process; they're counted unsorted first to check nothing major has gone astray, and then sorted according to who the vote is for and those stacks are counted.)