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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-16-05 09:27 PM Original message |
How are "spoiled ballots" handled? |
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kiwi_expat (526 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-16-05 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. They are surely saved and available for citizens' "inspection"/counting |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-16-05 11:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Oh. "Those" spoiled ballots. |
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anaxarchos (963 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-17-05 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
3. Varies by electoral jurisdiction and voting technology.... n/t |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-17-05 12:19 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Thanks |
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anaxarchos (963 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-17-05 12:32 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Try "residual votes".... n/t |
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kiwi_expat (526 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-17-05 12:46 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. "residual votes" means the same as "spoiled ballots": over/under votes. |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-17-05 02:02 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Thanks! |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-17-05 02:00 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Not much there, either. |
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roseBudd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-17-05 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
9. I asked my mom that question after inspecting poll books in Warren County |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-17-05 04:59 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Funny you should mention this guy. |
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roseBudd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-17-05 09:14 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. He is the academic that filed an affidavit for Arnebeck regarding |
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kiwi_expat (526 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-17-05 07:05 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Wilms is concerned about voter-voided ballots, not "spoiled ballots". |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-17-05 07:16 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Thank you. |
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roseBudd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-05 03:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. in Warren County the voter voided ballots were marked as spoiled |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-05 03:15 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Cool. |
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roseBudd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-05 03:54 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. These were punch cards so it is difficult to say whether "seeing" |
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ISUGRADIA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-05 04:17 PM Response to Reply #11 |
19. In Iowa law voter voided ballots are known as spoiled ballots |
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kiwi_expat (526 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-05 07:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
26. "number of voter signatures .... |
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ISUGRADIA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-05 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
17. In Iowa, at least for absentees, if a ballot is rejected for |
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ISUGRADIA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-05 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
18. In Iowa, at least for absentees, if a ballot is rejected for |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-05 04:20 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Thanks for that. n/t |
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kiwi_expat (526 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-05 05:57 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. So the rejected (over/under) votes are counted as "voted" .... |
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ISUGRADIA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-05 06:13 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Ballots are not rejected for over/under at the polls |
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kiwi_expat (526 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-05 06:22 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Iowa does, indeed, have a very impressive system. |
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ISUGRADIA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-05 06:48 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Punch cards had been outlawed for a long time in Iowa |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-05 07:00 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. I'm afraid of them pushing DRE's on Iowa, too. |
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