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	Singapore Elections - Ballot Secrecy
		That way, the number of papers found in the ballot box at the end of the election can be reconciled with the number of papers issued during the poll and the number of papers stocked before the poll began.
		After the count, all ballot papers and their counterfoils have to be sealed in the Supreme Court vault for 6 months, after which all the ballot papers and other election documents are destroyed.
		The ballot paper number is there to protect the integrity of the democratic process, and not to undermine the secrecy of the vote.
	www.elections.gov.sg /secrecy.htm (550 words)

	Douglas W. Jones on Paper Ballots
		The accounting for ballots typically involves reconciling the number of ballots found in the ballot box at the end of the election with the number issued to voters during the voting period and the number stocked at the polling place at the beginning of the election.
		Ballot boxes should not be designed so that the ballots stack neatly and in the order they were deposited, and when the ballot box is opened for counting, its contents should be dumped into a disorderly pile on the counting table and not handled in neat stacks that preserve their order.
		When ballot boxes are sealed prior to an election at a central location, and when ballots are counted centrally after the polls close, when ballots are moved to storage awaiting a request for recount, and when ballots are moved from storage to the site of the recount, it is essential that tampering be prevented.
	www.cs.uiowa.edu /~jones/voting/paper.html (4708 words)

	Ballot stuffing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ballot stuffing is the illegal act of one person submitting multiple ballots during a vote in which only one ballot per person is permitted.
		After marking the ballot, the sheet is folded in half with each part dropped in the corresponding ballot box.
		Ballot stuffing with voting machines would be possible with Sequoia touchscreen machines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ballot_stuffing (377 words)

	Proposition Glut / Stuffing the ballot
		Ballot propositions are a good idea that has been taken over the top.
		Ballot initiatives have become just another form of professional politics, and a misguided one at that.
		Maybe we can return basic government to Sacramento, and reserve ballot propositions for those rare times when a direct vote of the people is needed.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/01/ED200333.DTL&type=printable (654 words)

	Armenia: Election Marred by Intimidation, Ballot Stuffing (Human Rights Watch, 7-3-2003)
		Preparations for ballot stuffing appeared to begin on the eve of the elections.
		According to Aravot and Haykakan Zhamanak, two mainstream newspapers, pre-stamped ballot papers, marked in favor of Kocharian, were in circulation prior to the vote.
		Allegedly, the chairwoman of her polling station pulled her by the hair and a group of young men kicked her when she tried to prevent the latter from stuffing the ballots into the box.
	www.hrw.org /press/2003/03/armenia030703.htm (988 words)

	Ballot box - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually cuboid, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient to accept a ballot paper in an election but which prevents anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period.
		When very large ballot papers are used, there may be a feeder mechanism to assist in the deposit of the paper into the box.
		Ballot boxes are in some jurisdictions obsolete, because of the increase in paperless electronic voting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ballot_box (236 words)

	State: State attorney looks into Orange, Osceola ballots
		Nearly 100 "questionable ballot request" complaints were received recently in the two counties, leading investigators to suggest fake absentee ballots might be cast.
		The fear is that illegal ballots could be dumped in the counties' election offices on Nov. 5, potentially affecting results, state attorney spokesman Randy Means said.
		Also, inventing voters or steering absentee ballot requests to the wrong address could allow illegal ballots to be cast, officials said.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/11/01/news_pf/State/State_attorney_looks_.shtml (351 words)

	Plan P from Outer Space
		I did not intend to imply—and I believe, upon rereading, that I was successful—that either the authors or Meisha Merlin had anything to do with the ballot stuffing.
		Stuffing the ballot box and plagiarism are merely different manifestations of the same kind of intellectual dishonesty.
		The irony is that the "biggest" office on the ballot was mayor of a fairly small town.
	savage.authorslawyer.com /planp.shtml (1704 words)

	Stargate Fan Awards :: Recognizing, celebrating, and enjoying the creativity of the Stargate fandom! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ballot stuffing can take several forms, and all of them are against the rules of the Awards.
		Ballot stuffing wastes the time of the awards team and lowers the credibility of the winners.
		Anyone who participates in ballot stuffing will be forever banned from the awards.
	www.stargatefanawards.com /eFic/stuffing.php?PHPSESSID=fccb45ad83363f27d250344f1eb11675 (365 words)

	Labour unhappy with explanations re excessive ballot papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		I have been further informed by sources at the Government Printing office that additional ballot papers for the various constituencies continue to be printed every night since polling commenced.
		According to information I have received so far, additional ballot papers were printed for a number of constituencies on the night of Saturday 6th May 2006.
		This is due to the fact that in a number of cases voters were given only one ballot paper instead of two.
	www.flp.org.fj /n060510d.htm (670 words)

	THE DIMPLES PROVE FRAUD... STUFFING THE BALLOTS
		Further evidence of ballot box stuffing surfaced when they caught a Democrat operative with a "Vote-A- matic" machine and more than a thousand blank ballots in his car.
		Anywhere the punch ballot is used, this is the preferred method of stuffing the box.
		Obviously, the Gore/Lieberman campaign stuffed the ballot boxes in these counties but still failed to generate enough votes to win.
	www.etherzone.com /2000/bend112900.html (687 words)

	St. Petersburg Times \| tampabay.com \| Know it now.
		She blamed poll workers' fatigue and error and said the correct numbers were certified to the state.
		That count, plus the tally of ballots recorded by the machines, forms the final voting report that is used to certify the results sent to the state, Clark said.
		Clark said her office confirmed just 23 discrepancies, representing more ballots counted by the machines than the number of signatures in precinct registers.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/10/27/Southpinellas/More_accurate_voter_c.shtml (489 words)

	Sound Politics: Credit where credit is due
		These ballots of unknown provenance were not set aside as they should have been, but at some point mixed in and counted with the other absentees, again irretrievably.
		State law requires that elections workers hand provisional voters a ballot and an envelope, then must assure that the provisional voter puts the ballot in the envelope, and that envelope into another envelope that must be signed and include the address of the provisional voter.
		It could be a ballot with a forged signature that was stolen from a mailbox for all you know until you confirm whose signature appears to be on the ballot envelope.
	www.soundpolitics.com /archives/003996.html (1453 words)

	Preventing Ballot Box Stuffing
		Ballot Box Stuffing occurs when an individual (respondent) submits more than one survey.
		First, without anti-ballot box stuffing (ABBS) turned on, the respondent is notified that their survey has been received and they are assigned a respondent id number.
		Second, if a second submit is received, they are presented with a screen that gives them the option to either restart the survey, or to retake the survey again.
	www.surveyz.com /help/14.html (419 words)

	Security and privacy of the system
		If a large enough group of people start using the system to filter their incoming news, stuffing the ballot-box for or against articles will become a way of harassing and censoring groups of users on the net.
		If every vote is transported through the system authenticated with a digital signature[24] from the user casting the vote, it is possible to prevent ballot-box stuffing completely as the final consumer of the votes can ensure that each user votes only once.
		If preventing ballot box stuffing became crucial to the success of the collaborative system, a more complicated system proposed by Chaum for use with anonymous digital certifications could be used.
	www-2.cs.cmu.edu /~dmaltz/main-report/node37.html (798 words)

	Mark A. R. Kleiman: BALLOT-BOX STUFFING GOES HIGH-TECH The
		Paper or punch-card ballots are physical objects; having been counted once, they can be counted again to check.
		The technical fix to this problem is straightforward: have the machines produce a printed ballot card for each voter, showing the candidates that voter was recorded as having voted for.
		The voter could inspect that ballot, make a fuss if there's a mismatch, and then deposit the printed form in a physical ballot box.
	www.samefacts.com /archives/000501.html (465 words)

	Anti-Ballot-Stuffing
		Ballot stuffing is one of the banes of online surveys.
		One respondent with a desire to skew a survey can be quite successful, by submitting multiple responses to the same survey.
		At Papaya Polls we have a variety of methods to minimize the effects of ballot box stuffers.
	www.papayapolls.com /web/features/ballot-stuffing.html (83 words)

	Paper Ballot Optical Scanners Explained Again
		Following are important comparisons and misconceptions: (1) The PBOS voter-verified paper ballot is the legal ballot, whereas the DRE electronic "paper trail" is not the legal ballot.
		The paper ballot for the Paper Ballot, precinct based Optical Scanner, PBOS, is the LEGAL ballot, verified by the voter before it is cast, counted, and witnessed by citizen observers.
		By contrast, the legal ballot is whatever is recorded directly inside the computer--which can be different from what is on the computer screen and the printout.
	www.opednews.com /articles/opedne_marjorie_060220_paper_ballot_optical.htm (1616 words)

	Cyber-stuffing remains threat
		In 1957, 39 years before Internet voting was in place, seven Cincinnati players were voted into the starting lineup after fans stuffed the ballot box with help from a local newspaper that printed filled-out ballots for fans.
		This year's online ballot allows a person to vote 25 times with each e-mail address, based on the premise that there are 25 home games for fans to vote for their favorite players.
		Hand balloting was completed on Sunday, but many of those ballots are not expected to be included until the final totals are released next week.
	espn.go.com /mlb/s/2001/0624/1218244.html (1055 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Newly elected Knesset based on fraud?
		They said they are also aware of ballot stuffing by the UAL in over 90 villages in the Israeli Negev desert — the party's stronghold — likely resulting in the winning of the UAL's three seats.
		Israel's Elections Committee Chairman Judge Dorit Beinish this afternoon was asked to investigate several possible cases of voter fraud involving the UAL in small voting districts near the coastal town of Netanya.
		George Birnbaum, an Israeli political consultant and elections expert, told WND if UAL is found to have stuffed their ballots it could affect the party's number of seats.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49511 (1240 words)

	Online ballot stuffing e-liminated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		He set out to fix the All-Star balloting in favor of Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra, but he neglected to cover his tracks.
		The fact is baseball encourages a certain amount of ballot abuse in the name of audience participation.
		Nandor's first attempt to circumvent the system — or at least the first one that was detected — involved a block of 14,702 Garciaparra votes cast May 19.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/1999/07/08/spt_online_ballot.html (663 words)

	JURIST - Paper Chase: Congo arrests six election officials for ballot fraud
		Authorities allege that the officials were "caught red handed" tampering with ballots.
		The RCD noted cases of ballot stuffing and biased election officials during the poll - the first democratic presidential election in the country 40 years - saying that Rwandan Hutu rebels [BBC backgrounder] interfered with the election to garner more votes for Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila [BBC profile].
		Azarias Ruberwa [campaign website], the RCD presidential candidate, also accused Kabila's party of bribing voters and threatened to bring his case to the Supreme Court.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /paperchase/2006/08/congo-arrests-six-election-officials.php (421 words)

	Stuffing the Ballot Box - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform.
		This book also argues that nonpartisan commissions should run elections and explains why splitting responsibility over election affairs between the executive and the legislature is a recipe for partisan rancour and political conflict.
		Stuffing the Ballot Box will interest a broad array of political and social scientists, constitutional scholars, historians, election specialists and policy-makers interested in electoral fraud and institutional reform.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521810450 (280 words)

	Official: Karzai clear winner of Afghan election - World News - MSNBC.com
		Ballot count concludes but investigators probe fraud allegations
		Election workers count ballot papers at a counting center in Kabul on Tuesday.
		Earlier on Tuesday, a senior official said investigators have clear evidence of ballot box stuffing but not on a scale that would overturn Karzai’s victory.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6331693 (525 words)

	Evidence of ballot-stuffing in Afghan election; not enough to overturn Karzai : Indybay
		With almost all of the approximately 8.2 million votes cast in the Oct. 9 election already counted, the U.S.-backed incumbent has secured an unassailable lead and the majority needed to avoid a runoff.
		On Tuesday, election managers toured Afghanistan, examining some 400 ballot boxes quarantined at counting centres because of allegations of fraud, problems with paperwork and damaged seals.
		Kennedy said there would “almost inevitably be some (ballot) boxes excluded from the count” because of irregularities, but agreed that even if every quarantined ballot was thrown out, it wouldn't be enough to push Mr.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2004/10/28/17019021.php (467 words)

	NewsNet5.com - Education - Class To Have 2 Presidents After 'Ballot-Box Stuffing'
		The decision came after an apparent ballot-box stuffing that resulted in the election of Ollie Thomas (pictured, far left), the school's first fl senior class president.
		Hoynes said it was impossible to tabulate exact results of this year's election because of the voting irregularities.
		They said disciplinary action will be taken if and when the people responsible for the ballot-box stuffing are discovered.
	www.newsnet5.com /education/2213265/detail.html (274 words)

	Sports People; Ballot Stuffing - New York Times
		Using a photocopier and a computer, a minor league baseball executive produced thousands of ballots to try to influence the voting for the National League team that will play the American League in the All-Star Game July 13 in Montreal.
		Tom Hogan, a 30-year-old administrative assistant for the Richmond Braves of the International League, said he thought the Atlanta players on the ballot were worthy of more recognition and he sent ''between 10,000 and 20,000'' ballots to Paramus, N.J., where the votes are counted.
		But the attempt to stuff the ballot box was in vain, according to John Folan, an employee of the Gillette Company, which supervises the voting.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E3DC133BF930A35754C0A964948260 (162 words)

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