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Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:36:00

VOTE

Gonna go cast my essentially useless vote today, as I live in a blue-to-its-heart state.  Hopefully I can cast my vote...I just called the State Elections Commission to find out if the typo of my name on the rolls will prevent me from voting.  The helpful lady at the hotline said no.  I should be good to go as long as my address matches and my name can be discerned.

Can’t wait for the day to be over.  Cross your fingers, everyone. Republican, Democrat, Independent, Red, Blue, Purple, Yellow Dog, Redneck, Hippy, Liberal, Conservative, Green, Libertarian...whatever you are, cross your fingers and PRAY the answer is settled before dawn.  NO COURT DECISIONS.  That’s what we *all* want.  A simple, decisive answer.  Let’s all hope that is how this goes.

Now if you haven’t yet...go vote.


Posted by JimK at 04:36 PM on November 04, 2008
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Comments:

#1  Posted by Sean Galbraith Germany on 11/04 at 11:24 PM -

Ain’t that the truth. Dem or Repub.. please be a landslide.

#2  Posted by Sean Galbraith Germany on 11/04 at 11:25 PM -

How did it go at the poll? Any problem?

JimK#3  Posted by JimK United States on 11/04 at 11:33 PM -

Smoove as buttah.  New easy-to-use paper ballots fed into a scanner, so we have a double record of each vote. I do love a lot about this state...some things we get really, really right.  I think this is the best compromise between modern tallying technique and a verifiable paper trail.

#4  Posted by DeanG United States on 11/05 at 10:07 PM -

I agree that the paper ballots are better.

The only thing they lack is privacy. Everyone can see them as you feed them into the scanner.

There was just something about the old booths though.

I used to love seeing them when I went to vote with Mom and Dad. I even remember Dad showing me how to use them when I could reach the levers.

Maybe if they retained the booths as privacy closets for the paper ballots we could win all the way around.


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