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To: Spirited
Good in theory- but Florida may be too big for it to work.
We have 8million voters-3 million of whom live in Dade,Broward & Palm Beach. Broward has 780 precincts, Dade 754- presents an impossible task for phone lines to handle.

E-mail from the precinct might work (they would provide a time and date stamp when sent), but security concerns about hacking into open modem lines stopped Florida from hooking the precincts up by modem.

There is a physical voter roll, signed by each voter who turns up, which is compared to the votes cast before final certification, but that is not done immediately on election night. And it would require poll workers to go through a book of 2000+ names, manually counting signatures for reporting election night. I'm not sure that's a good plan- we've seen how well they count down there.


131 posted on 09/15/2002 1:52:09 PM PDT by Goldwater Girl
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To: Goldwater Girl
There is a physical voter roll, signed by each voter who turns up, which is compared to the votes cast before final certification, but that is not done immediately on election night. And it would require poll workers to go through a book of 2000+ names, manually counting signatures for reporting election night. I'm not sure that's a good plan- we've seen how well they count down there.

Each pre-printed page has known number of places to put signatures. You should be able to count the number of filled pages very quickly. The partially filled pages should be fairly easy to count because each signature would be next to a number.

137 posted on 09/15/2002 2:20:03 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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