On Nov 2, 2004, at 8:14 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/2/2004 8:50:07 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Holy cow - 75 mins? I walked in, waited for the lady in front of me to get her ballot from the people checking addresses, got my ballot, voted, turned it in and left. Total time: ~7 mins including reading the short ballot questions and marking the ballot. Dinnertime is the right time to go vote, apparently.
4 minutes for me, I think. 6:45am. I did not vote for judges or school boards.
Closer to 7 for me at early voting, but I had an upset 3-year-old on my lap as I was trying to mark the ovals. I voted for judges, but school board wasn't included on this ballot. It might have taken longer had I not perused a scan of my ballot on-line beforehand to figure out just which ovals I was going to blacken. Memorized it and was able to fill in ovals without thinking.
Black marker in the ovals, then feed it to the hungry gulper.
Yum!
In Northern California at 11:30 AM, we waited in line about :30.
Voting via Sequoia "AVC Edge" touch-screen voting machines was very easy: my wife Peggy and I finished the entire voting process (from inserting the smart-card through voting to handing the card to the poll worker to record them and reset the card for the next voter) in about 2-3 minutes, after standing around for 5-10 minutes waiting for machines to become available after signing in. Add a minute or two for the doddering poll worker to figure out that two voters had finished and had turned in their cards... Spent most of the time after signing in trying to figure out how the heck it could take anybody to take more than 5 minutes to vote.
Dave
Then again, We're Geeks Maru
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