Re: write-ins

["Steve Knecht" <skglobal@earthlink.net>]

I think that is illegal, but you'd better check.  They can write in "fruity
tuity", or there may be names very close together.  i've seen candidates
with only the middle initial different on a ballot.  I don't think you want
to go there.
----- Original Message -----
From: Rodney D Turner <rodney@dieboldes.com>
To: <rcr@dieboldes.com>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 8:30 AM
Subject: write-ins


> For Write-ins, is there way that we can manually adjust a write-in vote so
> that we can clear up a voters intent.
>
> Example:
>
> A voter writes in a candidate, but spells the name wrong: like Valentine,
> but the voter misspells the name, and writes Valenntime. Clearly the voter
> intent was to vote for Valentine. At present, there would be one vote for
> Valentine and one vote for Valenntime.
> Can we in GEMS create a way to manually add the misspell write-in vote to
> the correct
> write-in vote??
>
> Rodney D. Turner
> rodney@dieboldes.com
>
>