Hancock County, IN - Paging through the monunds of reading missed during the past 8 months [or so], Popular Science [4] notes the "optical-sense scan" voting system Hancock County uses loses some the fewest votes among the 5 most popular voting systems generally employed. In their November 2003 article 5 ailing ways to cast a vote the presidental election vote loss rate is 1.5% and in more local - gov./senate - elections the loss rate rises to 3.5%.
More to come when we can get to scanning the pretty table...
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