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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.
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
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.
amych - Nov 06, 2006 11:47:10 am PST #7903 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
We have the same machines Theo describes. They really do solve the problems of both hanging chad and COMPLETE FUCKING LACK OF ANY RECORDS quite nicely. And, bonus, you use a special magic marker that isn't just a normal marker, and anything that comes with special markers is extra-cool.
Still, though, no ka-CHUNK.
Theodosia - Nov 06, 2006 11:50:42 am PST #7904 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"
The Scantron itself makes a nice little hummmm though. Still, I do miss the ka-CHUNK.
Jesse - Nov 06, 2006 11:52:18 am PST #7905 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But voting in Somerville never had a ka-CHUNK (in my lifetime, anyway), so there's no loss there. I'm obsessed with Scantron voting, and don't understand why it's not universal. Except then I remember all of the people who think the ka-CHUNK means voting.
Jessica - Nov 06, 2006 11:53:05 am PST #7906 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I feel quite certain that a simulated kaTHUNK noise could be worked into the design of the optical scanner voting machines. There could even be a lever to pull when you put the paper in to be scanned. It would be the World's Best Voting System!
Theodosia - Nov 06, 2006 11:54:25 am PST #7907 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"
New Jersey had a ka-chunker, but I only got to use it once or twice, but I remember getting to accompany parental units behind the Curtain of Democracy in Action.