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Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: BostonRedSox
I want to know how the votes get counted so fast. It should take the 100+ year old people working the polls at my voting facility weeks on end to count them all.

This is all fixed.
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They have machines. Just like those scantron tests you take in school. A 85 year old arthritic lit teacher could shuffle down to the office with a stack of those and come back in 3 minutes with every one of them graded.
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Scanning 100 students' scantrons is most definitely not the same thing as trying to scan millions of votes collected in thousands of polling locations.
 
Originally posted by: DingDingDao
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: BostonRedSox
I want to know how the votes get counted so fast. It should take the 100+ year old people working the polls at my voting facility weeks on end to count them all.

This is all fixed.
Click to expand...

They have machines. Just like those scantron tests you take in school. A 85 year old arthritic lit teacher could shuffle down to the office with a stack of those and come back in 3 minutes with every one of them graded.
Click to expand...

Scanning 100 students' scantrons is most definitely not the same thing as trying to scan millions of votes collected in thousands of polling locations.
Click to expand...

Alaska has had scan-type voting machines for years, even before the Florida 2000 debacle. You fill in the circles, take it out to the machine, insert it, the machine scans it and stores it for a hard copy record. Machines transmit their data periodically to a central server, then I believe they also do a re-check at the end to make sure the central server data is consistent with their individual results. It scans both sides and from either end of the ballot so that even a person from Florida should be able to manage unless they fill in more than one bubble, in which case they can just get a new ballot. We had a recount for something up here at one point. I don't remember what the particular case was, I just remember that they said there was only a difference of one vote and that was due to a person that had filled out more than one circle on their ballot then scribbled it out or something.

There is no delay, no scanning stacks of votes. You just feed it in as soon as you're done.
 
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Originally posted by: DingDingDao
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: BostonRedSox
I want to know how the votes get counted so fast. It should take the 100+ year old people working the polls at my voting facility weeks on end to count them all.

This is all fixed.
Click to expand...

They have machines. Just like those scantron tests you take in school. A 85 year old arthritic lit teacher could shuffle down to the office with a stack of those and come back in 3 minutes with every one of them graded.
Click to expand...

Scanning 100 students' scantrons is most definitely not the same thing as trying to scan millions of votes collected in thousands of polling locations.
Click to expand...

Alaska has had scan-type voting machines for years, even before the Florida 2000 debacle. You fill in the circles, take it out to the machine, insert it, the machine scans it and stores it for a hard copy record. Machines transmit their data periodically to a central server, then I believe they also do a re-check at the end to make sure the central server data is consistent with their individual results. It scans both sides and from either end of the ballot so that even a person from Florida should be able to manage unless they fill in more than one bubble, in which case they can just get a new ballot. We had a recount for something up here at one point. I don't remember what the particular case was, I just remember that they said there was only a difference of one vote and that was due to a person that had filled out more than one circle on their ballot then scribbled it out or something.

There is no delay, no scanning stacks of votes. You just feed it in as soon as you're done.
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Thank you.
 
Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
anyone want to guess which is the first state that they call one way, then reverse their decision later?
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i don't think they'll call the close ones any time soon, they are just doing the easy ones now
 
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Originally posted by: DingDingDao
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: BostonRedSox
I want to know how the votes get counted so fast. It should take the 100+ year old people working the polls at my voting facility weeks on end to count them all.

This is all fixed.
Click to expand...

They have machines. Just like those scantron tests you take in school. A 85 year old arthritic lit teacher could shuffle down to the office with a stack of those and come back in 3 minutes with every one of them graded.
Click to expand...

Scanning 100 students' scantrons is most definitely not the same thing as trying to scan millions of votes collected in thousands of polling locations.
Click to expand...

Alaska has had scan-type voting machines for years, even before the Florida 2000 debacle. You fill in the circles, take it out to the machine, insert it, the machine scans it and stores it for a hard copy record. Machines transmit their data periodically to a central server, then I believe they also do a re-check at the end to make sure the central server data is consistent with their individual results. It scans both sides and from either end of the ballot so that even a person from Florida should be able to manage unless they fill in more than one bubble, in which case they can just get a new ballot. We had a recount for something up here at one point. I don't remember what the particular case was, I just remember that they said there was only a difference of one vote and that was due to a person that had filled out more than one circle on their ballot then scribbled it out or something.

There is no delay, no scanning stacks of votes. You just feed it in as soon as you're done.
Click to expand...

Thank you.
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Glad to hear that Alaska has their system set up. When I voted today (in Pasadena, CA), they put my vote into a sealed box. I'm pretty certain that box will not be opened until 8:00 PST. Didn't get scanned or anything. So it probably differs from state to state.

 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
anyone want to guess which is the first state that they call one way, then reverse their decision later?
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i don't think they'll call the close ones any time soon, they are just doing the easy ones now
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when do NY polls close? that will make the map a whole lot nicer
 
Kerry Bush

PA 53 46
FL 51 49
NC 48 52
OH 51 49
MO 46 54
AR 47 53
MI 51 47
NM 50 49
LA 43 56
CO 48 51
AZ 45 55
MN 54 44
WI 52 47
IA 49 49

unofficial, as of 6PM, from dailykos
 
4 MORE YEARS!!!4 MORE YEARS!!!4 MORE YEARS!!!4 MORE YEARS!!!4 MORE YEARS!!!4 MORE YEARS!!!4 MORE YEARS!!!
 
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
4 MORE YEARS!!!4 MORE YEARS!!!4 MORE YEARS!!!4 MORE YEARS!!!4 MORE YEARS!!!4 MORE YEARS!!!4 MORE YEARS!!!
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you got it easy, there was no question GA would go Bush

MO should, but it isn't as clear as GA

Bush has to get 2 out of 3 of PA , OH and FL or maybe all 3 if some others don't turn out the way the polls were showing
 
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