Why was my vote disenfranchised]?' Binay told reporters, noting there was no reason for his ballot to be rejected as it did not contain any
stray mark.
Jimenez said the same set of printers had been used in the past three elections, although the precinct count optical scanners used in the 2010 and 2013 polls did not have the
stray mark detection feature.
"There's a lot of significance in that statement, as I seethe pictures of those people in the video holding ballots up to the light and squinting at them, wondering what this erasure mark means and wondering what the star next to the name means, what a
stray mark might mean.
The votes were cast in total privacy -- with no chance for
stray marks on a ballot.
Several anomalies were found in American electronic voting systems, including incomplete holes in punch cards and
stray marks on optical scan cards during America's 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, especially in Volusia County, Florida.
What is great about seeing such a copious number of his photographs now is to clock their glorious imperfections -- freckles, wrinkles, a serious scar on a model's neck -- as details from an age before all
stray marks were wiped out and cleaned up on screen.
A few are almost no
stray marks may be present erasures or stray but don't detract from drawing.
Jeremy Yeomans played one of the "
Stray Marks," a group of "toughs" who like to hang out outside the answer circles on standardized tests.
Ballots can be invalidated by
stray marks or failure to follow directions, and VBM offers new opportunities for election sabotage.
It also helps to keep
stray marks off the desks or tabletops.
Both Collinson, who lost a couple of
stray marks on the awkward rock steps of section five, and Peace, who cast four away on the relatively easy rock climb of section two, tried hard all night but could never match his consistency.