Re: No Kerry buttons allowed...

From: Rich Grise (rich_at_example.net)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 02:18:03 GMT

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 16:45:11 -0800, Tim Wescott wrote:

> 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.

When I went to vote, in Norwalk, CA, they asked if I wanted "touch-screen"
or "ballot." I quipped, "Paper of plastic?" and there was a sprinkling of
polite laughter.

I chose paper, and told everyone in the immediate vicinity, "Paper is
better, because it make it harder to cheat!" and, of course, as usual,
no one paid any attention to me, or those who did immediately dismissed
me as a lunatic.

As per usual. :-)

Thanks,
Rich

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