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Name :   Warren Smith
Organization :   N/A
Post Date :   9/30/2005

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Comment :  I would like to see the guidelines recommend that voting machines provide  
support for improved voting systems. It is known that range voting elections can be run on any voting machine that handles multiple plurality elections (without  
modification of the machine). This is good since it means fairly painless  
transitions between plurality and range voting are possible. But still, this scheme engenders a certain amount (depending on the machine type) of inconvenience for either the election administrators or the voters, and it would be better if the machine itself supported this type of voting directly and by design.