Re: [election-services] Default choices pre-filled on ballots?

[David Webber <david.webber@oracle.com>]

  Jamie,

The slot machines in the next booth over however work flawlessly.

Unfortunately the US election scene is full of these device malfunction 
issues over the years here.

I could foresee legal challenges to results if candidates perceive this 
unduly affected voting.

One would hope that if OASIS EML XML was being used to configure the 
ballots and candidates that this would be a less likely occurrence.

DW

On 10/26/2010 3:25 PM, Jamie Clark wrote:
> Er, wow.  Maybe old news to you folks, but somewhat surprising to me. Just FYI.
> One might say a few things about the fact that the default value
> reportedly was varied by native language too.
> http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/26/1428226/Voting-Machines-Selecting-Default-Candidates
>
> ~ James Bryce Clark
> ~ General Counsel, OASIS
> ~ http://www.oasis-open.org/who/staff.php#clark  @JamieXML
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