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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by WindyCityBrew on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:55AM (#22235502)
Minus the google being evil part, this entire operation could have been done in google sheets and would probably have gone 100 x better. With free robust revision history, permission control, and everything....
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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by judge2020 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:57AM (#22235523)
Assuming they set it up properly and/or use multiple sheets, a single sheet for 20+ people can get real messy and hard to audit.
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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by WindyCityBrew on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:29AM (#22235852)
I would set up each reporting unit (precint/causaus site) with their own sheet. There are probably only 5-10 officials per site that should even have edit access, maybe less, like only secretaries?

Make a nice formatted layout specific to that year. People feel pretty comfortable in excel-like spreadsheets/forms.

Then at the state level, since you have permission to all the sheets, its simple to aggregates all the sheet data

It's not some wiz-bang branded app with fancy animations, but its piggybacking on a very robust spreadsheet system that many people have some experience/intuition with.

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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by willj on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:03AM (#22235574)
They probably mean via a Google Form. That’s a fairly safe way (in my experience) to add inputs from many users concurrently.
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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by rtkwe on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:37AM (#22235955)
Then you get into problems dealing with erroneous entries though right?
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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by boublepop on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:29AM (#22236625)
This kind of naivety is likely what brought about the entire issue in the first place.
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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by WindyCityBrew on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:45AM (#22236824)
Consultants with more budget than sense seems more likely.
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