I just got back from casting my first votes ever as a Texan. Nine
days before Election Day, and on a Sunday, no less!
I got there at 1pm, figuring that the NFL games on TV would keep the
lines short. However, there were at least a dozen people ahead of me
in the line, but it moved quickly enough. By the time I left, the line
was longer than when I came in.
They scanned my driver's license, and printed out a sticker for me to
sign, and one to give to the booth attendant. The machines were
electronic, with touch screens. The layout of the screen was clean,
and it was obvious when you selected someone. If you made a mistake,
you only had to touch the correct choice, and it would select that one
and unselect the original. I looked for a manufacturer's name, but
couldn't find any. After completing everything, it paged through your
choices and gave you a chance to review them all and change them if
you wished. Only after going through the pages did the red 'VOTE'
button light up. Press that, and you're done. I do wish that it would
give a hard copy, but then again, none of the mechanical voting
machines ever did that, so I guess I can't complain.
One thing that I saw that I thought was an improvement over the bulky
mechanical machines is that while I was there a small van with some
disabled people arrived. The women running the polling station
collected their IDs, went inside to register their names and print the
stickers to sign, and then picked up one of the machines (about the
size of a late 1990's laptop), and brought it out to them. They could
vote without leaving their van.
The red state of Texas just got a little more purple.
-- Ed Leafe
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