EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Warren Smith
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | SPOILED BALLOTS: Suppose the voter feeds in an invalid ballot (such as an "overvote"). Then I want it to be a requirement that the voting machine IMMEDIATELY notify the voter his ballot is invalid & rejected - and permit that voter to try again. It should be absolutely unacceptable for a voting machine to simply silently accept an invalid ballot without notifying the voter there is any problem - and indeed it should not be possible to adjust the machine to make it be so silent - but these guidelines simply permit this practice without even a disparaging comment! This is the year 2005. Unintended spoiled ballots simply should not exist.