On October 10, the St. Joseph County, Indiana, Green Party persuaded the county Elections Board to revise the system for counting write-in votes. The new system will enable Greens to know how many write-in votes they receive on election night. However, the new system also slightly compromises the secret ballot. The new system provides that voters who cast a write-in vote put their ballot in the “auxiliary bin” of the machine that tallies the optical scan ballots, instead of feeding the ballot into the main slot on the machine. That way, the ballots in the auxiliary bin can be quickly separated out (after the polls close) and the write-ins tallied on election night. St. Joseph County includes South Bend, and Greens have been running a vigorous campaign for their write-in candidates for South Bend city office.