RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Time off from work to vote

["McNutt, Justin M." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

There's a lot of argument about this.  When my wife and I did our election research, we watched for people who wanted electronic voting systems that generated a voter-verifiable paper ballot.  There were several Democrats and Libertarians who were in favor of - essentially - making the system use open source as well (woo hoo!).

The lack of a write-in is still a problem, IMHO.  Then again, I am not aware of a write-in candidate EVER winning an election anywhere, or even coming close.  Anyone have any data to the contrary?

But the open source, voter verification, and paper trail issues are a big deal IMnsHO when it comes to electronic voting systems.  Personally, I'm pretty happy with the Sharpie method, really.  It's sophisticated enough to do the job quickly and well, but not so sophisticated that even third-graders could tally the ballots in the event of, say, a massive power outage (no scantron counters!).

Dry Sharpie's without caps notwithstanding... ;-)

The parking lot was packed when I went this morning at ~6:30am, but there's a lot of room at the fire station.  Only had to wait on two people, and the second one was my wife.  :-D

--J

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> 
> i can't believe that in the 2004, i used a sharpie marker and 
> a piece of 
> paper to pick the leader of the free world.  you would think 
> by now, we 
> would have some form of stable electronic voting system nation wide.  
> come on, we can land a guy on the moon and probe mars....but i still 
> need to use a sharpie to vote?
> 
> Michael wrote:
> 
> > I just went to vote here. 11:30am and the place was almost empty. I 
> > didn't have to wait in line at all. I voted for a republican, a 
> > democrat, and three libertarians. Now if only I had cable I could 
> > watch and see if everyone else agrees with me. What are the odds? ;)
> >
> > The voting machine I used was shit ugly but easy enough to 
> use. It was 
> > electronic but seems something from the days of lore. There 
> was more 
> > than decently helpful staff that kindly told me how to use the 
> > machine. My only real complaint was that it had no way for 
> me to write 
> > in a name should I not want to vote for one of the choices 
> the machine 
> > offered. Sorry Weird Al, I couldn't vote for you. It was kind of 
> > quaint that before I could use the machine a technician had to hand 
> > toggle some sort of switches to set what area I was voting from.
> >
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