I officially will never vote electronically again...

[eits]

Originally posted by: Proprioceptive

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe

Originally posted by: eits
also, wearing an obama shirt is not electioneering. wearing an obama sticker is.

?????

Here both candidate shirts and stickers are prohibited at the polls...

Yep... here in Missouri, anything with ANYTHING political is prohibited.

i voted in missouri. the guy in front of me was wearing a mccain shirt, but when someone took a mccain sticker from the people out front trying to hand out pamphlets and stickers and crap, they were stopped from entering the polling station.

i dunno, maybe wearing a sticker is less of a freedom of expression than wearing a shirt you bought is. i'm not sure.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: eits

Originally posted by: Proprioceptive

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe

Originally posted by: eits
also, wearing an obama shirt is not electioneering. wearing an obama sticker is.

?????

Here both candidate shirts and stickers are prohibited at the polls...

Yep... here in Missouri, anything with ANYTHING political is prohibited.

i voted in missouri. the guy in front of me was wearing a mccain shirt, but when someone took a mccain sticker from the people out front trying to hand out pamphlets and stickers and crap, they were stopped from entering the polling station.

i dunno, maybe wearing a sticker is less of a freedom of expression than wearing a shirt you bought is. i'm not sure.

Maybe they didn't want to humiliate the guy by making him go to the bathroom and turn his shirt inside out. A sticker is easy to remove, a shirt is not.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I've said it before. All involved in setting up those electronic votes should be send to internment camps for the most epic fail in their duties EVAR. They SUCK ASS.

Yupp,
anyone with a least bit of background in IT will tell you the same. Nothing like a closed-source machine with no paper trail ... FAIL.

Why is this so fucking difficult to do? Honestly? Lotteries use electronic "voting" machines with no problems and everyone gets a printout with a checksum as a fail-safe.

The electronic machine I voted on has a paper trail though.

 

[extra]

Why are you guys attacking the poster, electronic voting can suck for EVERYONE.

 

[quest55720]

I spread the love today in the major elections. In the major elections I voted for 1 republican 1 democrat and 1 third party.

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: techs

Originally posted by: Proprioceptive
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If you had posted this one of the threads about voting problems I wouldn't have had a problem with it. But to start a thread with no evidence except anecdotal would basically be the end of this forum as people would just be signing up and making threads on everything and anything that came into their heads to post.
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Techs??

Am I alone in thinking this may possibly be the most eggregious example of the "pot calling the kettle black" in the history of AT P&N?

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Back on topic - I had no problem with the electronic voting machines we use here in NC. We're one of the states that require a paper print-out, so as I voted I could follow the paper print-out and ensure my vote was properely recorded (if only on the paper trail).

Fern

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: extra
Why are you guys attacking the poster, electronic voting can suck for EVERYONE.

And at the same time, it can be a huge time-saver.

It should really be no more than a glorified printer. Use the machine to decide, then it fills in the circles for you and you don't officially register your vote until you drop the printed-out ballot in the slot.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: extra
Why are you guys attacking the poster, electronic voting can suck for EVERYONE.

And at the same time, it can be a huge time-saver.

It should really be no more than a glorified printer. Use the machine to decide, then it fills in the circles for you and you don't officially register your vote until you drop the printed-out ballot in the slot.

If voting machines really worked like that, I'd be all for them.

Select, print, double-check, sign, submit.

These machines now are way too easy to manipulate.

 

[Eeezee]

The solution is to vote early. We do electronic voting machines here. They worked well for me in the primary, but right afterward I signed up for permanent absentee voting just because that's the way I prefer it.

At worst, you can fill in the ballot and drop it off at a polling place if you're really worried about changing your mind later.