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Neither of the WAC's sited on the security envelope 434-36-130 and 434-243-190  appear on  the current WAC web repository.

Dave Gibney Pullman

by gibney on Sat Sep 02, 2006 at 11:42:33 PM PST

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I'm following this closely. We'll see how things develop.

by Nathan Horter on Sun Sep 03, 2006 at 09:35:33 AM PST

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Each county keeps statistics on voting history. The important statistic to know going into the vote counting process is the historic % for undervotes.
To get the right impression about this number you will need to know some things like how long have votes been counted and cast in roughly the same way and is their a difference between on and off years.
Then you need to keep an eye on what the actual undervote % is and watch to see if any races could be changed by the gap between the norm and the actual.
You may need to also form an opinion about how many voters may have selected an otherwise repulsive party ballot in order to vote in only one race as this will boost the undervotes.
Finally, you may find that the answers are not available that can give you confidence that no outcomes were effected. In this case a manual count will have to be pushed for based upon the flaws in printing. If no races are very close, I expect this will be an up hill fight.
Good luck!

by Particle Man on Sun Sep 03, 2006 at 10:57:32 AM PST

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>Our new tabulators accept pen and pencil, but we are using up the
>envelope stock ordered to cover the 2006 elections.  The only ink that
>the tabulators will not read is red and green, but even using those
>colors will not cause a ballot to be rejected, it would merely need to
>go through the duplication process.
>
>Eunice Coker
>Whitman County Auditor
>PO Box 350
>Colfax, WA   99111
>509-397-6270

Dave Gibney Pullman

by gibney on Tue Sep 05, 2006 at 08:56:00 AM PST

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First, I'm thinking that the instructions represent a change in thinking about what marking device is best.

As for the primary, nobody is asking you what race you "want to influence". Parties are polling their membership. You can either be truthful and vote in the Democratic primary or lie and vote in the Republican primary. Of course, as a Democrat you "want to influence" the Republican primary. That's exactly why the Republicans don't want you to vote in their primary.

There's never anything that's going to prevent a Democrat from voting in Republican primaries - even in states where people have to register as to party. All a party can do is prevent "submarine", lying switch-over primary voters from voting in the primaries of their own parties.

by dlaw on Fri Sep 08, 2006 at 10:52:18 AM PST

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