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	PETITION -- HOUSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ballots for the use of voters in a voting precinct, polling place or town shall contain names of all candidates duly nominated for election therein, and, except as provided in section 43, they shall contain the name of no other person.
		The name of any person shall not be printed on the official ballot or on ballot labels more than once as a candidate for the same office nor more than once for any office wherein a full term and a partial term running concurrently are to be filed.
		The names of candidates for different terms of service in the same office shall be arranged in groups according to the length of their respective terms, and the names of candidates nominated by single wards but to be voted for at large, shall be arranged in groups by wards in like order.
	www.mass.gov /legis/bills/house/ht00/ht00069.htm (678 words)

	Random ballot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In an election or referendum, the ballot of a single voter is selected at random, and that ballot decides the result of the election.
		The random ballot method is decisive, in that there is no possibility of a tied vote, assuming that the selected voter has expressed a preference (if not then another ballot can be selected at random).
		But it is not deterministic, in that a different random selection could have produced a different result, and it undermines majority rule since there is a substantial possibility that the selected voter may be in the minority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Random_ballot (562 words)

	Halfbakery: Enhanced verifiable ballots
		For disabled voters who cannot cast such ballots directly, have available a machine which will allow a voter to select candidates from a spoken recording, but which will then produce for the candidate a filled out paper ballot which is processed like any other.
		When a ballot is inserted into the counting machine, it would be assigned a random unique ID, which would be marked on the paper ballot itself in machine-readable form, and would also be recorded electronically along with the votes cast.
		One bad ballot may not indicate something sinister--certainly not grounds for tossing out the election--but it would be grounds for checking the scanning equipment and doing a run of 200.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Enhanced_20verifiable_20ballots (1628 words)

	2004 Presidential Ballot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Ralph Nader is added to the ballot, 48% of registered voters and likely voters say they would vote for Kerry, 48% say they would vote for Bush, and 1% say they would vote for Nader.
		Sample Size: 1,500 completed telephone interviews among a random sample of registered voters living in telephone households in the continental United States, of the total sample of registered voters, 1,258 are likely voters.
		Margins of Error: ± 2.5 percentage points, 95% of the time, on questions where opinion is evenly split for the total sample of registered voters and ± 2.8 percentage points, 95% of the time, on questions where opinion is evenly split for the sample of likely voters.
	www.americanresearchgroup.com /presballot (256 words)

	Odds of recounts altering outcome
		Ballots might stick together (in the case of punched cards probably changing two "candidate" votes to one "no-vote" plus either one "candidate" or one "underpunched"; among optically scanned votes changing one "candidate" to "no vote").
		A very large fraction of the underpunched ballots would be found, upon inspection, to be inarguably blank, that is, these ballots are "underpunched" in the "true" ballot count (stage 3) because the voter apparently intended not to cast a vote for President when submitting his or her ballot.
		Certainly a fraction of the ballots can be expected to be blank; we have estimated in the previous section that there is a small number of deliberate abstentions in the elections -- we estimate this at 0.4% of the total number of ballots cast (654050, including overvotes and undervotes).
	www.math.niu.edu /~rusin/uses-math/recount/index.html (20227 words)

	news @ accountancy.com.pk > Self-Assessment Scheme: FTO turns down plea against random ballot
		The complainants had filed their returns for the assessment year 2002-03, which were selected by computer random ballot.
		Hearing the point of view of both the sides, the FTO in his order said that to appreciate these contentions, it was necessary to have a look at the provisions of the law, particularly sections 59, 59A, 61 and 62.
		On introduction of Self-Assessment Scheme it was found necessary to have random selection of returns filed under the scheme for purposes of scrutiny and assessment under Section 62.
	www.accountancy.com.pk /pr_pg_newsgen.asp?newsid=1041 (1276 words)

	User:R.H. - Electowiki
		It follows that an election method that uses randomness should have that feature not as a first step, but only as a fallback and every voter should have some control over whether that happens.
		It follows that if no candidate in an approval voting process gets approval by more than half the voters, the majority of the voters is in favour of a random ballot election (it can happen that the result of that is even more disliked, though).
		This method adds some incentive for people with a preference for a candidate known as weakly supported to not approve anybody else (the lottery chance) and for people who prefer a candidate known as strongly supported a little incentive to also approve somebody else (to prevent the possibility of a lottery win for extremists).
	wiki.electorama.com /wiki/User:R.H. (674 words)

	Election methods and criteria
		Then a ballot is drawn at random, and the preferred candidate on this ballot is elected.
		It is also quite difficult to count: The ballots need to be counted multiple times, and it's not possible to to find the IRV results on subsets of the ballots (for instance, in different cities) and somehow "merge" the results to get a final result.
		Minimum Opposition returns a tie between B and C. If Random Ballot is used to pick a winner, then B is elected with 24/51sts or 47.06% probability, and C is elected with 27/51sts or 52.94% probability.
	nodesiege.tripod.com /elections (7730 words)

	Ballot Access News -- September 20, 1994
		However, the share of U.S. voters with a third choice on their ballots, for at least one office, is better this year, than in any mid-term congressional election since 1982.
		A term limits initiative was removed from the ballot by the North Dakota Secretary of State, after he received an Attorney General's Opinion of Sep. 1, which defines "circulator" to be the person who physically carries a petition around from person to person.
		But once the candidate filed the lawsuit on ballot design, the Secretary of State revoked her ballot certification, on the grounds that Conte hadn't complied with the one-year prior disaffiliation law.
	www.ballot-access.org /1994/0920.html (3593 words)

	Electoral Methods: Single Winner
		There is no justification for entering a ballot approving of all alternatives or disaproving of all alternatives.
		For each ballot, each alternative is given one point for every other alternative it is ranked above, and 1/2 point for every other alternative it is ranked as equal to.
		If the ballot does not rank a candidate with respect to another, and this ranking is desired, choose another ballot.
	condorcet.org /emr/methods.shtml (876 words)

	O'Reilly Network -- Opening Up E-Voting
		The folder is then carried out to the ballot reader, where the voter can, if she wishes, scan the bar code and verify that her vote is correctly recorded.
		The paper ballots are scanned by the ballot reader, which uses the infomration from the bar code to create reconstructed electronic ballot images (REBIs), which are then matched against the EBIs on the ballot printer.
		Printing enough ballots to cover every language for, say, Los Angeles County, with enough ballots in each language for each precinct not to run short, is an expensive and time-consuming problem.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/policy/2004/04/26/ovc.html (1976 words)

	Independent Florida Alligator - NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Ballot Fairness Act, which was passed twice by the Senate, changed the order of ballots from alphabetical to random.
		In response, Jones argued that a person’s name could be considered random because a candidate cannot choose his or her own name.
		Although Jones conceded that ballot placement can make a difference in an election, he said that random placement is not the best solution to the problem.
	www.alligator.org /edit/news/issues/stories/040128senate.html (349 words)

	Ranked-ballot voting calculator
		One ballot per line is assumed unless the line begins with a number followed by a colon; the number specifies how many ballots share that ranking.
		Ballots themselves can be commented out by inserting a # at the beginning of the line.
		If none is given and a tiebreaking ranking is needed, it will be generated by drawing a random ballot and breaking its tied preferences randomly.
	cec.wustl.edu /~rhl1/rbvote/calc.html (351 words)

	The Official Utah Republican Party Web Site > Events > Conventions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In contested races, candidates shall appear on the ballot in random order and have speaking assignments made by random drawing at least 7 days prior to the convention.
		For officer elections requiring voting by secret ballot, each candidate or one designee per candidate shall be allowed to witness the processing and counting of the ballots.
		The ballots of the candidate with the least first preference votes are then redistributed based on the next highest candidate preference among the remaining candidates.
	www.utgop.org /events/convention_rules.html (1279 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Local News: Ballot plan not good enough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After the ruling, Gardner said he met with the attorney general but he was not ready to present a new plan for the ballots.
		In the ballot design rejected by the court Thursday, Gardner had proposed a random draw to choose a letter to start the list of candidates within each House district.
		But Conboy said there are other better ways to make the ballot random -- including starting with the letter K and followed by L through Z. Paul Twomey, the lawyer who argued for the ballot change, said he was pleased with Conboy's ruling.
	www.seacoastonline.com /news/09292006/nhnews-ph-nh-ballot.28.html (611 words)

	cannabisnews.com: Marijuana Initiative Won't Make Nov. Ballot
		A random sample of the 142,624 signatures submitted showed that fewer than 101,762 signers were registered to vote or lived where they said they did.
		Inherent in the definition of "random" is the possibility that the sample (notice that the size of the sample is not disclosed) "just happened to" pick up an inordinate number of falsified signatures.
		That is, a random sample is, by definition, not necessarily a representative sample.
	www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread6541.shtml (1374 words)

	Andrew Leigh » Blog Archive » Led by Donkeys
		Australia invented the secret ballot, was among the first to allow women the vote, and pioneered compulsory voting.
		Indeed, we were able to identify five recent races in which a man from a major party drew first position on the ballot and won by a margin of less than 1.4 percent.
		But after the ballot draw, the system is manifestly unfair, since a man in the first position will do better than his rivals.
	andrewleigh.com /?p=1162 (881 words)

	22,147 returns selected for audit -DAWN - Business; November 29, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The ballot to select cases for audit in pursuance of SAS was held at data processing centres at Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi.
		Thus the present ballot and the scheme under which it was held would be the last one, the member added.
		He said last year such computer balloting under the then SAS was held on February 21, 2001, after a period of about five months from the last date of filing of returns.
	www.dawn.com /2002/11/29/ebr5.htm (909 words)

	Voters' Guide General Information - May 18, 2004 Primary Election
		Pursuant to ORS 254.155, the Secretary of State is required to complete a random order of the letters of the alphabet to determine the order in which the names of candidates appear on the ballot.
		If your ballot is lost, destroyed, damaged or you make a mistake in marking your ballot, you may call your county elections office and request a replacement ballot.
		The ballot is then voted and returned to the county elections official to be counted.
	www.sos.state.or.us /elections/may182004/guide/geninfo.html (1363 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Local News: School funding issue gets top billing on ballot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lower on the ballot, a $6.9 million proposal for clean-water projects won top spot among the three bond issue questions in the drawing by Secretary of State Dan Gwadosky.
		The second initiative on the Nov. 4 ballot asks voters if they want to allow slot machines at certain commercial horse racing tracks, and the third asks if the state should allow a gambling casino run by the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Indians.
		The second bond proposal on the ballot seeks $19 million for educational projects at Maine’s state university campuses, community colleges, Maine Maritime Academy and public libraries.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2003news/08282003/maine/47197.htm (495 words)

	Printing error revealed in Karratha land ballot. 16/03/2006. ABC News Online
		About half of the information packages distributed to people interested in registering for a random ballot for blocks of land in Karratha have the wrong price details listed for the land on sale.
		Ballot entries for those wanting to buy blocks of land in the Tambrey development will be available until mid-April.
		The printing error means that the first digit in the price tag has been removed, so a block of land that is selling for $145,000 will be shown with a price tag of $45,000.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200603/s1593023.htm (191 words)

	3Online Voting Systems
		Ballot packages are mailed to all members (in case of a hybrid paper/online election).
		In the test, 140 different ballot styles were actually assigned to voters based on their addresses in the county.
		Ballots are received at the VoteHere.net election data center, encrypted using 1024 bit encryption and stored on a secure server.
	www.eucybervote.org /Reports/KUL-WP2-D4V1-v1.0-02.htm (12050 words)

	James Green Controversy Was Avoidable :: thetyee.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ballots are then transferred until a single candidate has reached the threshold of 50 percent set for election.
		A random ballot may help those with w's in their last name get elected, but it won't give voters any more power.
		Changing the ballot order might stop you from running out and recruiting a candidate with the same last name as your principal opponent (and I am not asserting that this happened in this case) but it would not stop you from recruiting and financing a candidate who simply had a similar political stance.
	thetyee.ca /Views/2005/11/30/GreenControversy (10914 words)

	CLT Legislation filed for 2005-06 session
		Ballots for the use of voters in a voting precinct, polling place or town shall contain the names of all candidates duly nominated for election therein, and, except as provided in section forty-three, they shall contain the name of no other person.
		To the name of each candidate for a state or city office, except for city elections which are not preceded by primaries, shall be added in the same space his party or political designation.
		The name of any person shall not be printed on the official ballot or on ballot labels more than once as a candidate for the same office nor more than once for any office wherein a full term and a partial term running concurrently are to be filled.
	cltg.org /cltg/clt2004/bills_2005-06.htm (994 words)

	Voters' Guide General Information - May 16, 2006 Primary Election
		In an effort not to duplicate the printing of information, some of these voting aids are not a part of the state voters’ pamphlet, but instead are included in your county voters’ pamphlet, if your county has produced a voters’ pamphlet.
		The voted ballot must be received in any county elections office or designated drop site by 8pm on election night.
		All ballots are separated from the return envelope before the ballots are inspected.
	www.sos.state.or.us /elections/may162006/guide/geninfo.html (1645 words)

	Press Release: Sequoia Discusses Safeguards of Electronic Voting- Sequoia Voting Systems
		This includes a bit-for-bit comparison of the redundant memories (including ballot definition data) and a full recount between the individual ballot images and the summary totals for each candidate.
		The AVC Edge stores each ballot randomly, using a random number generator that uses the current time and other changing system data to ensure a complete randomization.
		Despite the concerns identified in the code review conducted by Johns Hopkins researchers, election security must be viewed as a combination of numerous layers of security that, taken individually, may be insufficient, but taken as a whole, provide accurate, secure and accessible elections.
	www.sequoiavote.com /mediadetail.php?id=69 (1131 words)

	ballot
		the method of secret voting by means of printed or written ballots or by means of voting machines.
		They succeeded in getting her name placed on the ballot.
		Certain age groups will not be balloted at this time.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/ballot (140 words)

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