How did you vote?

Post #182,172 by pwhysall 11/2/04 7:48:32 AM Reply	How did you vote? Machine or paper or what? Here in the UK, one still puts one’s X in the box with the Official Election Pencil. While it might be slower to count, it’s not running on Windows connected to the POTS via RAS. And there’s something to be said for that. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home]
Post #182,174 by Silverlock 11/2/04 7:51:17 AM Reply	Punch cards Which actually work quite well if the machine is set up correctly and the ballots are clearly understood. ----------------------------------------- How do you convince a Washington Journalist that you're not slapping him in the face? Tell him you're not.
Post #182,175 by pwhysall 11/2/04 7:52:07 AM Reply	Here's to your chad being undimpled or hanging or pregnant. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home]
Post #182,182 by Yendor 11/2/04 8:48:55 AM Reply	Paper and pencil Old-fashioned way. In 2000, we had some form of punch cards, which I rather disliked. DuPage County has since gotten rid of those. We now have ballots that [link\|http://www.mikevitale.com/SampleBallot.pdf\|look like this]. And just for shits and grins, here's the full [link\|http://www.mikevitale.com/CandidateList.pdf\|candidate list, including addresses]. ;-) By the way...Yes, it's true. I can vote for both John Kerry AND Jerry Kohn. -YendorMike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #182,191 by Another Scott 11/2/04 9:38:49 AM Reply	Touch screen. It didn't seem to be a Diebold machine, but the brand didn't jump out at me. There were 6 of them in our elementary school polling place. (There's a Winders demonstration video on [link\|http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/gov/eb/homepage.htm\|this] page if you're interested.) The voting was quick and painless. Previously, we used a plastic panel with membrane buttons then pushed a big VOTE button when we were done. We didn't get a paper receipt then either. I have confidence that my vote will be counted correctly because there were several monitors present and because I have faith in my local elections officials. YMMV. (And quit calling me "Pollyanna" :-) As I mentioned in Politics, it was the busiest I've ever seen. It took me 45 minutes and I heard the wait was much longer when the polls opened at 6:00. I hope people don't wait too long to get out there and vote. Cheers, Scott.
Post #182,198 by jbrabeck 11/2/04 9:48:24 AM Reply	All the polling site I went past on way to drop off daughter were packed and some had lines out the doors. Polls opened in Minnesota at 07:00 and I was driving past at 07:05. My mom is one of the election judges. She couldn't comprehend why they were warned that there might be significant lines today. She's been a judge forever, and could not recall ever having any lines at her polling site. May today be different! Lastly, Sec of State is predicting even higher voter turnout than in 2000, when Minnesota had a 69% voter turnout. Off to vote. A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
Post #182,235 by inthane-chan 11/2/04 12:09:03 PM Reply	Absentee. Voted about two weeks ago. Fill in the ovals with black ink, and it leaves a paper trail. Very nice. All I want for my birthday is a new President!
Post #182,279 by altmann 11/2/04 2:59:17 PM Reply	Scanner Fill in bubbles with an ink pen. Feed ballot through an optical scanner and into the attached ballot box. Keep receipt in case of emergency. A nice balance of efficiency and paper trail. Unfortunately it's made by Diebold, so WhoTF knows what'll happen. [link\|http://www.diebold.com/dieboldes/accuvote_os.htm\|http://www.diebold.c...s/accuvote_os.htm] -- Chris Altmann
Post #182,320 by jb4 11/2/04 6:22:30 PM Reply	Fill-in-the-dots (SAT-style) Paper ballots, fine-tipped felt marker to fill on the oval next to the name of the person from whom you're voting, feed the ballot into a reader on the way out. Clean, simple, auditable, hard to fuck with, and nothing labelled Diebold within the entire county...IOW, just what the doctor ordered! jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #182,567 by lincoln 11/3/04 6:33:33 PM Reply	same here but the instructions said that we could only use a #2 pencil, so obviously they're going to use an optical scanner to count 'em up. lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #182,359 by drewk 11/2/04 8:30:04 PM Reply	Punch card As I said in Thane's thread elsewhere, same "butterfly ballot" they used in Florida last time. How anyone screwed those up is a complete mystery. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #182,361 by Andrew Grygus 11/2/04 8:33:58 PM Reply	Ink punch Just ike the punch cards (same frames, even), but instead the puncher makes an heavy black ink dot. You can verify that the dot took by looking through the hole after you punch. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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