On 5/4/05, Ron Crane <voting@lastland.net> wrote:
> On May 4, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Jim March wrote:
> >
> > Let's be clear: in any state, any county, you can ask for and GET the
> > votes cast in any precinct you care to name. That's current law,
> > current procedure.
>
> Can I get the *ballots* cast in each precinct? Or only the precinct
> totals? If the former, then it would seem that my objection already has
> been overridden.
I think this is the essential problem that makes me, as a privacy
researcher, uneasy.
It's the *correlation* between votes cast (for each contest on a
ballot) being publicly available with little bar to access that is the
problem. That's why I thought that having ballots where each contest
is physically separated (and then shuffled) from all other contests
would eliminate this problem.
I don't know of any system that publishes information on all cast
ballots for polling places (and would love to know of one if anyone
knows one).
(However, I must say, it would be really neat from a statistical point
of view to have this kind of information to see if people who vote
certain ways are more likely to undervote, etc.)
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