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On optical mark-sense scanning

Jones, 2010

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7915957113471081189
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Jones D
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Towards Trustworthy Elections: New Directions in Electronic Voting

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Optical mark-sense scanning has lead to a resurgence in the use of paper ballots in the United States, despite a century of strong competition from paperless direct-recording voting systems. By the time mark-sense technology emerged, procedural measures had been …
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