Voting question...

**imported_zoezoe** · 11-07-2006, 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by kaisdad

Why can't you guys just mark a ballot with a pencil? No machines, no complications.

Because some people can't follow directions!!

**bearsmomma** · 11-07-2006, 09:12 PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15590530/

I just cant believe that after so many years of doing this, people still dont get it right.

Of course, whoever loses will try to blame it on something.............

Thats the damn truth.

**imported_Nick** · 11-07-2006, 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by kaisdad

Why can't you guys just mark a ballot with a pencil? No machines, no complications.

That's what I'm thinking. How hard can that be?

In all honesty, I think it's because people don't want to wait so long. It would take a while to count a couple hundred million ballots.

One reason we moved away was fraud as labor bosses and other groups (especially in my state) tampered with paper ballots. You'd slip in your stack of ballots as they were taken to the county clerk to be counted. I'd hope better security in this day and age would prevent that. But paper ballots alone were the problem...so that's why many jurisdictions don't use them now.

**zgirls** · 11-07-2006, 09:17 PM

one of the machines at my school showed the battery was low after it had been taken outside for a handicapped person to vote....turned out they had not plugged all the plugs in correctly........however they determined no votes or information had been lost........

**bearsmomma** · 11-07-2006, 09:21 PM

The county that I live in shows no precincts reporting. Funny, alot in VA have 100% reported. Funny if little ole Middlesex slows the whole thing up :P

**theoconbrio** · 11-07-2006, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by kaisdad

Why can't you guys just mark a ballot with a pencil?* No machines, no complications.

That's what we did today. We just draw a bigass arrow next to the candidate we like. It's all read optically.

**kaisdad** · 11-07-2006, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by theoconbrio

Originally Posted by kaisdad

Why can't you guys just mark a ballot with a pencil?* No machines, no complications.

That's what we did today. We just draw a bigass arrow next to the candidate we like. It's all read optically.

That's how it works up here. We go to our polling place, go to the front desk where our name is struck from the voters list. We then go to the booth and mark our ballot and fold it and put it in the box. The last election had optical readers, where we would put our ballot into the machine and it read the vote. Simple as that.

**imported_Nick** · 11-07-2006, 11:32 PM

I think we made the mistake of trying to be all technical and sophisticated when in this case simpler is definitely better.

**patm** · 11-08-2006, 06:15 AM

When I got to "the polls" after work today, 2 out of 4 machines weren't working. Off and on, different machines were working or not. When SU got there early in the am, they didn't have them stated yet!

**mitziandjudysmom** · 11-08-2006, 07:32 AM

At my precinct, 2 out of 4 machines weren't working when I was there at 7AM. I waited in line for 30 min. (The neighboring precinct had all 4 working and no line!!!) The poll worker said they were on the way to fix them, but on the evening news, my precinct was featured showing a long line waiting over 2 hrs to vote on one machine. They remained opened until everyone in line at closing time got to vote.