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Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 7:55
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Subject: Undervotes to include blank
votes (RE: State of Illinois )
This is a follow
up from the original Illinois RCR posted by Larry Ensminger 10-6-99
(attached). Larry Calvert has sent a fax restating the requests for
Illinois and Wisconsin. They look to be the same as the original
requests, with one exception:
ILLINOIS
MODIFICATIONS -- STATE MANDATED:
3) SOVC report to include items 6
and 7 from the state board report. Note that in Illinois Undervotes
are calculated by using the following formula. ("Times Blank Voted" X
# to Vote For) + Undervotes = Undervotes.
Ignoring the
algebra, looks like what they want is the same as Jeff Hintz requested some
time back: undervotes include blank votes. The question is, do
they also want undervotes to include blank races due to overvotes or
not?
I would rather not
start adding multiple flags for undervotes (include blank, include over), and
instead have a consistent set of rules for people to
support/document/train. If its really a state statute though, we are
going to need some kind of flag. Did GBS run VTS in Wisconsin? Did VTS deal with
this issue?
Ken