Ed Leafe wrote: > 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.
Hi Ed! We used to have the kind you are talking about, but we gave them away, losing millions, when the local D congress candidate lost to an R and sued over there not being a hard copy. Now we fill out a paper ballot which is scanned and stored, don't know how long they store it. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
