Re: No Kerry buttons allowed...

From: Daniel Haude (haude_at_kir.physnet.uni-hamburg.de)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: 3 Nov 2004 15:41:15 GMT

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 12:44:23 +0000,
  Paul Burridge <pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote
  in Msg. <hjkho0h3f9toknnlpn9clrfr3bgo96suek@4ax.com>

> Win's *not* a Brit and queuing here in Britland simply doesn't happen.
> All you need are more polling stations! What's so hard about that?

I've got NO idea why elections have to be so difficult, technically. Here
in Germany, elections are always on a Sunday from 8am to 6pm, your voting
station is no further than five minutes on foot (typically set up in a
school building), and within five minutes you're done. The ballots all
look alike, the votes get counted by hand, and by the next day the
official result is known (and the ballots are kept for a while in case
there's some glitch).

Voting on Tuesdays is stupid, and voting on Tuesdays with voting machines
that leave no paper trail is even more stupid.

--Daniel 

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