Reply #87: It's insane or corrupt to place multiple precincts

[Zan_of_Texas]

in the same building with different ballot orders.

It's like putting banana peels on top of ice and expecting people not to fall -- no way this results in an accurate tally.

A poster from Wisconsin said they at least had different color ballots for different precincts in the same building. Apparently Ohio did not.

But, here's the other thing.

If you are running a tally for punch cards, the tabulating person places a beginning card and an end card to tell the ballot reader what is what.

This info is notes from an interview by Evan Davis and Terry Taylor with Triad heads Brett and Dwayne Rapp:

"We do not supply punch card ballots -- we use standard Documation ballot readers that have been available since the early 60s. We have an interface box that connects to the personal computer - header card tells the ballot reader which precinct is being tabulated. An end card at the end of the stack. Pink card is the CANCEL card. Green card tells it it's the end of stack. Ballot tabulator - reset, ready to count."

So, if you're counting punch cards with one tabulator in a building with two precincts, presumably all you have to do is shuffle some PRECINCT A cards into the stack to be read for PRECINCT B. Right?

Then later if it's obvious something went awry, you can fall back on the "voter mistake" excuse.

Or, perhaps there WAS enough voter mistake. But I doubt it.

The other thing that is really curious is the "inability" of officials to tell us what is in that "ZERO" disqualified slot. I'm betting lots of votes are in that black hole, or they wouldn't be so shy about telling us. Normal accounting procedures would show that vote, because every vote should be accounted for even if it goes in there.