EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Sanford Morganstein
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/27/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Marksense
Definition : |
Comment : | System by which votes are recorded by means of marks made in voting response fields designated on one or both faces of a ballot card or series of cards. Marksense systems may use an optical scanner or similar sensor to read the ballots. Also known as Optical Scan. While all marksense systems are probably Optical Scan systems, not all Optical Scan systems are marksense systems. Consider an advanced voting system that reads a ballot based on Optical Character Recognition. Also consider systems that produce a bar code that is scanned. We suggest that the last sentence be deleted.