meaner gene
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As soon as you place ballots into public view, you will have people take advantage of their ballot being on the internet, and attach anything from personal information to political attacks, to profanity on their ballot.Actually Lastamender doesn't have a bad idea.
Ballot contain no personally identifiable information, as such they should be available - in electronic format - for public viewing. I mean hell, if someone wants to download and image of 1,500,000 ballots from a Maricopa County server one by one. Have at it.
Anything outside of the scanned area is ignored by the tabulators. But a ballot picture scanner would save the entire image, "warts and all" as the expression goes. So you would have to have people look at each image to make sure any extraneous markings are suitable for public release, and to either censor, or explain the ballots absence from public view.