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# RE: Allow a Smart Card to be voted a specified number of times

- To: <rcr@dieboldes.com>
- Subject: RE: Allow a Smart Card to be voted a specified number of times
- From: "Ken Clark" <ken@dieboldes.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:18:34 -0700
- Importance: Normal
- In-Reply-To: <NDBBJBKEHMHBEPDMLKOLGEPDCOAA.ljdglobal@dieboldes.com>

> From: owner-rcr@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-rcr@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of Larry Dix
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:20 PM

> This request is for using a touch screen for labor elections, therefore this request may conflict with voting standards as we know them.

It couldn't be a conflict; just (yet) another voting option.

> Can a smart card be programmed so that it will allow the user to vote a specified number of times. A delegate would declare the number of ballots that he is able to vote for.

We can do just about anything.

> Example: A person would be allowed to vote the ballot 5 times. This would be determined at time of smart card burning. The voter could continue to vote the same ballot and a counter would be incremented until the voter used up the specified number of ballots.

A few questions:

Is the number of votes the same for all smart cards created, or does it potentially change every time a new card is created? What is the potential range of votes a delegate can have?

Is the smart card locked into the machine until they use up all their votes, or can they stop and vote some more later? Are the votes transferable to other voters?

If the votes must be used all at once by one voter, then is the union open to other paradigms that accomplish the same thing? Or more to the point, this is just proportional voting. No point in giving them five ballots. Give them one ballot, and let them distribute their votes among the candidates in one pass. Five votes for candidate A, or three votes for A and two for B, etc.

As an aside, it would have to be a pretty big union to afford this kind of change, but hey maybe the teamsters are trying to elect Hoffa's son again?

Ken

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