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Re: "ballot tubes"
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Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:27:58 -0500
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Jim,

  You don't give a date for the bill.  With such a small number of voters,
could this bill have been Antebellum?  If so, VA didn't have paper ballots
at all, voting was done viva voce.

Harold S. Forsythe
Golieb Fellow
New York University, School of Law
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From: "Jim Watkinson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:21 AM
Subject: QU: "ballot tubes"


Listers:



Today I ran across a bill from Orange County (Va) to a firm named
Larmand & O'Sullivan for "130 ballot tubes," price $0.75 total.  Has
anyone on either list HEARD of ballot tubes?  Given the small number of
eligible voters, 130 would likely have been plenty for the entire
county.  Was this a "double measure" to protect the secret ballot with
the tubes being placed in the ballot box?



Any answers on- or off-line appreciated and, as always, pardon the
cross-post.



Regards,



Jim Watkinson



James D. Watkinson, Ph.D.

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