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Re: serial numbers on ballots

Rodney,
 
    I have a few question regarding this RCR:
 
  1. Does this not violate voter secrecy? Some states have legislation that prohibits any identifying mark on the ballot that would allow someone to identify the voter who cast the ballot.
  2. If we were to implement the 'automatic' incrementing of serial numbers, how about ballots that do not print correctly? Can we just ignore this problem and have 'missing' serial numbers.
  3. What kind of audit logging to they want, if any?
  4. Is printing the serial number next to the ballot/precinct label at the bottom of the ballot acceptable, or are they going to want to place the serial number somewhere in the header of the ballot? Implementing this would be a lot of work.
  5. When does this have to be implemented by?
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:49 AM
Subject: serial numbers on ballots

We are in the process of Best and Final Offer with two counties, Bexar County and Travis County.
We are going county wide with AccuVote-TS in El Paso county. 
These counties will all have BOD printers.  They are requesting that their BOD printer be able to print
serial numbers on their ballots.  They want to be able to manually set the first number, then have it
increment sequence ally from there.  This could seal the deal for at least one county, Bexar.  We would
win big points with El Paso and Travis.  We need to have an answer for them fairly quickly.  They will be making their
decision around the 29th of this month.  Thanks.