Ovals positioned back to back on ballots.

["Sophia Lee" <sophia@dieboldes.com>]

RCR:		sl-112099-01
Requested:	November 20, 1999
Required: 	December 15 1999
County:		King County, WA
Election:	February 29, 2000

The election in King County on November 2, 1999 went well. However, we did
have a "bleed-through" problem from the Sharpie Pens.
There were a lot of races and issues in this November election resulting in
some 450 ballot styles.  Unfortunately, a couple of the ovals on the Seattle
ballots were back to back.  Some of the marks on the front of the ballot
bled through to the ovals on the back of the ballots causing a race on the
back to register as over-votes.  This was detected and corrected within 2
hours of the opening of the polls.
Since Sharpies are still approved ballot marking instruments (according to
Ian), request that GEMS automatically detect if the ovals for any ballot are
back to back and either
a) provide an exception report identifying the ballot styles with back to
back ovals or
b) automatically adjust the oval column for the ballot.