We've had the scan-tron kind of paper ballots for years, and I can't see why any place wouldn't see it as the best of both worlds. All the advantages of computerized systems for instant counting, with the actual original marked-by-the-voter's-own-hand ballot right there if a backup is needed.
Yeah, that seems like the best of all worlds to me, too. Although I've only ever voted on old-school machines. My favorite was in Philly, because casting the vote opened the curtains. I still get thrown off in NY that I have make my way past the curtains....
There are 6 McCain cookies left. (Which just means that the McCain voters either [1] hate cookies or [2] are lazy and haven't gone to claim their cookie of oppression yet.)
Or maybe there are people who prefer the imagery of biting into the face of their opponent?
There are 6 McCain cookies left. (Which just means that the McCain voters either [1] hate cookies or [2] are lazy and haven't gone to claim their cookie of oppression yet.)
Or maybe there are people who prefer the imagery of biting into the face of their opponent?
I know who the Obama supporters are, and most of them almost trampled me when they saw me carrying the bakery box. I think it's safe to say that Obama supporters love cookies.
And there! NYC-istas: Ohio DOES have a cookie that isn't available year-round! (Are the Mallomars back? I assume so, b/c it's pretty late in the year.)
I wonder if any bakery around here is doing candidate cookies.
I know 7-11 is doing Candidate Coffee Cups.
I've never had a Ka-CHUNK machine to vote on, just fill in or punch the holes until I moved up here, when I got the touch-screen with paper back-up machine (with the option to take a paper ballot if I wanted to).
From Tom's link:
However, co-owner Joseph Zaro says that "some customers are not buying a particular cookie because it represents their candidate of choice. One woman bought five Palin cookies, then smudged out her face, broke them up and threw them in the garbage."
Ha ha! So maybe they aren't in Steph's office, but there are some people thinking like I am.
I only used the kaCHUNK machines once when I was actually voting -- nearly every election since I turned 18, I've voted absentee. (I think I might have sent in my absentee ballot application too late this year, which is worrying me a little, but I'll see if I get a ballot. If not, it's not like NJ is a swing state. In the 2000 election, I ended up getting my absentee ballot like a month after the election -- it was postmarked November 1, but didn't show up in my mailbox until December.)
The first time I voted in MA, it was the Ka-CHUNK machines (where you could lock down Dem or Rep if you knew you were going to vote straight ticket), but ever since we've had the opti-scan. I've never had to wait - this year might be different. Not so much due to the Presidential race (since we are as sure a lock for Obama as the country has), but because we've got some high-profile ballot questions this year.
So maybe they aren't in Steph's office, but there are some people thinking like I am.
Actually, after you posted your comment and I replied, a pro-McCain co-worker e-mailed me to ask "Are we supposed to eat the one we're NOT voting for?" with a smiley face.
I replied "You can -- if there are any left!" With a smiley face.
I'm hoping that by running over to the polling place before the lunch crowd hits (11:30 am-ish), I'll avoid the worst of the line. When I did that in 2006, there was no one there, so I was in and out in 10 minutes.
