What is the voting process?
For 95% of all countries, voting is 3-step process in which paper ballots are marked, cast, and counted. On Election Day, citizens go to their local polling precinct where they privately mark their ballots behind a curtain, then publicly cast their ballot into a box. At the end of the day, all ballots are publicly counted, so that the public, the press, and poll watchers can observe that the count was accurate. It is a simple process designed to minimize the risk of vote fraud or system failure and is sometimes called the Australian Paper Ballot method. Return to top 15. How do you use the Unilet Patriot Voting System? — NOT APPLICABLE UNLESS THE MACHINES ARE CERTIFIED!!! The Unilet Patriot voting system is as simply reading a question and finger-touching the computer screen for your answer, see below: • Touch the screen anywhere to begin voting. • This is the first page of an invisiable book. The office titles are highlighted. You may go forward in the ballot by touching NEXT PAGE o
Voting is done separately for each language pair. Depending on the number of entries, there are one or two rounds of voting. “Qualifying rounds” of voting are held only in pairs with a large number of entries (>7) to ensure that an appropriate number of entries reaches the finals, and that the ones selected are the best and most accurate. Voters are asked to rate entries in two categories: “Quality of writing” and “Accuracy of translation” on an absolute scale of 1 (“poor”) to 5 (“perfect”). During this round entries are removed from contention when it becomes clear that they have no reasonable chance of winning. Such assessment is made based on the average rating received from peers (relative to that assigned to other entries), after some minimum number of votes. Winnowing out entries in this way helps focus voter attention on the leading entries, increasing the likelihood that the best entries will be identified for inclusion in the final round. The 3-7 entries that receive the highe
