Judge Lee said their duty was to determine voter intent without partisanship.

A dimpled ballot should be allowed if a county canvassing board finds that it shows voter intent.

Manual counting requires a physical ballot that represents voter intent.

This immediate feedback can be helpful in successfully determining voter intent.

The different standards mostly involved competing notions of what expresses voter intent on a punch card.

If voter intent could be tabulated, you would have won.

Washington state law allows for election officials to evaluate voter intent and correct ballots so that the machines can properly read them.

How can voter intent be interpreted as a vote for anyone when the voter clearly did not follow directions?

They require that you find voter intent with respect to a damaged ballot.

If someone doesn't mark a ballot clearly, a recount can wind up back in the morass of arguing over "voter intent."