[EM] IRV proponents figure out how to make IRV precinct-summable

Raph Frank raphfrk at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 10:53:37 PDT 2009


2009/3/18 James Gilmour <jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk>:
> Raph Frank > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:20 PM
>> Well, as the software improves, this would be less of a
>> problem.
>
> I'm afraid you have misunderstood (or maybe I didn't explain it clearly).  It is not a software issue  -  it is a compliance issue.
> No matter what software you use to "read" the images, the Returning Officers will always have to decide the level of compliance for
> automatic acceptance.

By compliance, do you mean the confidence level that the software outputs?

Multiple independent images, processed by different people help with
this issue.  You would only need to check ballots where there is
disagreement.



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