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# RE: One For The Books

- To: <susan@gesn.com>, <support@gesn.com>
- Subject: RE: One For The Books
- From: "Ken Clark" <ken@gesn.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:52:17 -0600
- Importance: Normal
- In-reply-to: <NDBBLCPJMKJBCGFDEPFMKEGPCAAA.susan@gesn.com>

    I know you'll find it hard to believe, but this comes up about once a year.
    Its even more classic when a voter gets a dried out marker that hasn't been
    used for two years.

    Ken

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Susan Martin [mailto:susan@gesn.com]
    > Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 4:47 PM
    > To: Announcements
    > Subject: FW: One For The Books
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Ray Davis [mailto:registrar@co.stafford.va.us]
    > Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 4:06 PM
    > To: registrars@sbe.state.va.us
    > Subject: One For The Books
    >
    > I just have to share this!  It has been a long day!
    >
    > We use the Accu-Vote which as you know is a Mark Sense ballot system.  I
    > guess that means you have to have some sense to mark it.  A voter signed
    > the pledge, checked in, received his ballot, received ballot marking
    > instructions and went to the voting booth to mark his ballot.  After
    > marking his ballot, he started to the tabulator and asked the election
    > official if the tabulator would be able to read his ballot.  The EO
    > assured him it would.  The voter held the ballot out and asked again.
    > The EO did not want to see the ballot and assured him that it would.
    > The voter mumbled that he did not know how it could that it was a
    > mystery to him, he could not read it himself, and we must use some kind
    > of magic ink.  The EO official was far enough away that he could not
    > really see the names so he glanced at the ballot and saw that it was not
    > marked.  He told the voter he had to mark in the oval next to his
    > choice.  The voter said that he had.  He was returned to the voting
    > booth and both realized the voter had not removed the top from the
    > marking pen!
    > Have what ever kind of day you want to!
    > RD
    > BMC

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