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Posted on behalf of LHS.
Massachusetts has a certain kind of race (which
won't occur again until 2004) which has a candidate type called "no
preference". If the voter marks the No Preference candidate, the
voter is allowed to cast a write-in vote. The Accu-Vote must recognize
this and give the vote to the write-in space, whereas if the voter votes for a
named "candidate" type candidate and also marks the write-in space,
that should be counted as an overvote.
This is the whole point of the Preference write-in tally
setting. Somewhere in the system, the user must be able to create a
candidate of the type "no preference". I am advised this should
be posted as a bug, not an rcr.
Tyler
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