Thursday, November 30, 2000

ShopGuideNews Can "voter intent" be determined in a fair and objective manner by a hand recount of ballots? In an effort to replicate a hand recount of
punch cards (exactly like those at the center of the current controversy in Florida) rejected by election machines, Boston-based online
legal services provider AmeriCounsel.com recently conducted an experiment to simulate the tabulation process.

In the AmeriCounsel election, 373 members of the public were asked to vote for their favorite ice cream flavor and season of the year.
The ballots were then sent to an official election tabulation center, where machines could count the votes. The machines rejected 10
percent of the cards, but hand counters determined that one-third of those ballots were actually valid because voter intent could easily
be discerned.

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