i hear in estonia they have electronic voting that you can do at home. but that you need to buy a proprietary device and that originally when they announced the device + voting to start, they ran out of stock of the devices in shops.
2008/11/4 leaking pen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The polling place where i just voted was split in twain, two lines. > One for a large area of low income people, one for a very small area > of high income people. my line (low income area) was a 2 hour wait. > there was no wait in the other line at all. > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I suppose people are blase about real-time communications and so on, but > I > > am old enough to be amazed at how connected the world is. > > > > My daughter Naomi lives in New York city and my wife is in Japan at > present. > > Naomi was interviewed by a Japanese reporter last night at the Obama > > headquarters in New York. It was convenient for them -- they did not need > an > > interpreter. They asked "puffball questions" in Japanese and had her to > > respond in English to give it verisimilitude. The Obama people coached > her > > for 30 seconds before the interview as follows: "Don't say ANYTHING bad > > about McCain -- don't even mention him! Smile, smile, smile -- keep > > everything upbeat -- and don't give any hard numbers about how many > people > > are working here today . . ." (It was a mob scene. There were ~800 > > volunteers at that office, and hundreds coming in and out of the DeKalb > Co. > > Obama HQ yesterday, picking up thousands of door-hanger leaflets.) > > > > The broadcast was made in Japan at 5:00 their time (3:00 a.m. EST). > > Naturally, we rushed to tell everyone in Japan to watch it. So, here we > have > > phone calls and e-mail flying back and forth from the U.S. to Japan, in > real > > time, costing practically nothing. > > > > My daughter's office gave her a blackberry, from which she just sent me > this > > message: > > > > ". . . I'm in line to vote, it's snaking around the block -- a 40 minute > > wait." > > > > I told her there are long lines in DeKalb County, GA where I went, and I > > will try again later > > > > Later: > > > > "Starbucks is giving out free coffee and ben and jerries free icecream if > > you vote. My roommates and I got free coffee just now. Bring a magazine > for > > the line, and water." > > > > The whole world is watching, as they said in Chicago in 1968. > > > > On the other hand, with all this high tech fol-de-rol you would think > that > > the U.S. could engineer a method of voting that does not cause people to > > wait for hours. In Georgia there have been waits up to 12 hours in voting > > before the election. Gross incompetence. The black community (and I) > suspect > > it is voter suppression. > > > > - Jed > > > > > > -- :) I GoodSearch for Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust Foundation (Rangeley, Maine) by using http://www.goodsearch.com/ . Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by searching the Internet or shopping online with GoodSearch - www.goodsearch.com - powered by Yahoo!
