I've done ka-chunk and paper. I guess I like my ballots like I like my music...old school.
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
erikaj - Nov 06, 2006 11:12:00 am PST #7893 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
beth b - Nov 06, 2006 11:12:01 am PST #7894 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I've got one green , because the Dem that will win, doesn't really represent me. But we have a huge bunch of justices that I have no info on - so I can't vote. And I was looking at our city council. 2 have statements and the 2 that don't are certifiable. ( one talks about aliens and dead horses. the other is against everything)
tommyrot - Nov 06, 2006 11:13:27 am PST #7895 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
the other is against everything
No matter who or what commenced it?
Trudy Booth - Nov 06, 2006 11:13:29 am PST #7896 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I think, on principle, if we went to paperless Diebolds I'd start voting absentee. And if enough people walked in, sang three bars of Alice's Restaurant, and walked out...
Fred Pete - Nov 06, 2006 11:16:36 am PST #7897 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
OK, is anyone else really stressed-out about this election?
Among other things.
I guarantee if the GOP keeps either house of Congress, Bush will be talking "mandate". Again.
I don't know. After Ted Haggard got into trouble this weekend when his mandates were disclosed, people may stop using the word for a while.
shrift - Nov 06, 2006 11:35:51 am PST #7898 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I have reached the end of the internets, and I still have an hour left to go.
Send help.
sarameg - Nov 06, 2006 11:39:20 am PST #7899 of 10001
I have the same problem, shrift.
I should be writing up meeting note. Bleh.
shrift - Nov 06, 2006 11:40:21 am PST #7900 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I'm refreshing my inbox and hoping someone gives me work to do. And that's just sick and wrong.
Jessica - Nov 06, 2006 11:43:06 am PST #7901 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Guess the logo. Harder than it sounds.
Theodosia - Nov 06, 2006 11:44:31 am PST #7902 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
My part of MA uses Scantron voting -- you get a big fat paper ballot (on paper not unlike light cardboard) and vote by connecting arrows with a big fat Magic Marker. Then you take the paper ballot over to a machine that reads the votes optically and stores the actual paper ballot that gets trucked to the vote warehouse so that if there's a recount needed they can be reprocessed.
Speaking as a person who works with computer databases for a living, this is the best of both worlds -- you have swift and easy processing, but you can easily double-check your results in a publically verifiable manner.
It astounds me that anyone EVER thought the Diebold voting machines were a good idea.