The
balloting process - which was sort of a manual one having boxes inscribed with various posts - was transparent, as many candidates witnessed it.
According to details the Supreme Court has ordered the ministry to refrain from issuing results of
balloting on Friday.
A video recording of the whole
balloting process will be arranged to make it part of the official record.
Indeed, in "A Fallible 'Fail-Safe,'" a recent Demos report on provisional
balloting in the 2006 election, I analyzed more than five hundred calls made to the Election Protection hotline and found that more than 40 percent had to do with errors with voter registration lists.
It also features online help to assist users through all steps in the
balloting process.
Still, as the
balloting at that week's convention began, Willkie had only 105 votes on the first ballot.
That is why the League of Women Voters is making a special effort to inform election officials, League members and other citizens about provisional
balloting and how to implement it.
The board of directors met on March 3, 2003 and approved the amendments to the TAPPI Bylaws allowing electronic
balloting in annual Association elections, which will be in effect for the 2003-04 board election.
Deficiencies in
balloting systems and questions of the integrity of the election results forced the public to wonder just how capable and democratic U.S.