1. will DFR help decipher the *intent* of the voters via their baaaade handwriting/printing ???

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   OTHER ACTS OF WAR IN ANOTHER UN-DECLARED WAR IN MIDDLE EAST

   TOO MANY ANTI-CHRISTS TO COUNT ???

   USA/ISRAEL — IRAN / RED CHINA/ RUSSIA / N K. — AFGHANS/ PAKIS. – MORE ???

2. If OCR tabulation cannot decrypt the handwriting, it would go a human tabulator. If still unintelligible it cannot count. Any voter can scribble even if instructed to write in block letters. They got that right.

3. If using a DRE voting device you can type-in the name. In the new system in Harris County, you make your choices on a touchscreen, which then prints a ballot, which you insert into a tabulator which saves the ballot as a paper backup. In the 2006 election in which Tom Delay could not be replaced on the ballot, counties which used DRE could only program their systems to count the official spelling of the write-in candidate, but once a particular misspelling was recognized, all ballots with same misspelling could be counted. The list of accepted spellings was 28 pages long in one county. In the county that used paper ballots that were optically scanned they projected the write-in votes on a screen, and the election clerks made a judgement call.

   I suspect that in Rutland they are going to end up doing a hand count anyway, I wonder whether it would be worthwhile to do OCR? Rutland has four voting locations, so it would feasible to campaign at all of them.

4. Hand count should mean count OF hands, not just count BY hand.

5. @Stanley,

   Why not use the method used at the Paxton impeachment trial. Voters fill out a ballot and sign it. Ballots are collected, shuffled, and read out. Then go through the voters in alphabetical order. Voter rises and confirms their vote.

6. Literacy is increasingly rare. It will soon be as rare as it was in medieval times, if not more so.

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