Re: No Kerry buttons allowed...

From: Tim Wescott (tim_at_wescottnospamdesign.com)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 16:45:11 -0800

Daniel Haude wrote:

> 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

Even in the boonies?

> (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).

Yes, but you folks also manage to run your trains on time.
>
> Voting on Tuesdays is stupid, and voting on Tuesdays with voting machines
> that leave no paper trail is even more stupid.
>
> --Daniel
>
Certainly voting machines that leave no paper trail is stupid. I was
listening to an interview of Jimmy Carter the other day; he mentioned
that were it to ask, the US would be turned down for monitoring by his
voting rights project, in part because of the lack of easy traceability. 

-- 
Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com