EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Warren Smith
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | I would like to see the guidelines recommend that voting machines provide support for improved voting systems. It is known that range voting elections can be run on any voting machine that handles multiple plurality elections (without modification of the machine). This is good since it means fairly painless transitions between plurality and range voting are possible. But still, this scheme engenders a certain amount (depending on the machine type) of inconvenience for either the election administrators or the voters, and it would be better if the machine itself supported this type of voting directly and by design.