Early voting

LadyShea · #1 10-20-2004, 01:16 AM

Okay, ballot cast. Our new machines are pretty cool...you vote via touch screen, but then it prints a paper copy of your choices and displays it behind plexiglass for you to verify before casting the ballot. I kinda felt better knowing there was both a hard copy and the electronic count.

Anybody else have both?

Beth · #2 10-20-2004, 02:35 AM

grr, double posted

Beth · #3 10-20-2004, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by LadyShea

Okay, ballot cast. Our new machines are pretty cool...you vote via touch screen, but then it prints a paper copy of your choices and displays it behind plexiglass for you to verify before casting the ballot. I kinda felt better knowing there was both a hard copy and the electronic count.

Anybody else have both?

Not us. And that is what truly sucks about our system...no paper back up. In Miami Dade, at a previous election, some of the votes were lost. I still have a lot of reservations in Florida's election with Jebbie Boy being the governor.

wildernesse · #4 10-20-2004, 02:49 AM

Advance voting here in Georgia doesn't begin until next week, but I believe that we've settled that we're (RA and I) going to do it. I've never voted in a Presidential election in person, so I wanted to stand in line--until I thought about the possibility of having to stand in line for 2 hours surrounded by Bush voters (likely here in GA). So, now I think I will try the early voting too--especially because lisarea reminds me that I might die or be catastrophically injured before I get to vote!

We have touch screen ballots here too, but no paper printouts. I read a really depressing article earlier in the year about how GA, Maryland, and CA? all have the same system with the same bugs--and how MD and CA have fixed them, but GA didn't b/c they didn't have time before elections. Or something to that effect. :eek:

The really awesome thing I found out recently is that Athens transit system, The Bus, is providing transportation completely free of charge on Election Day. Their website even gives you the bus routes to the polling places in town.

freemonkey · #5 10-20-2004, 03:53 AM

It really says something that more than one person is so concerned about this election that they are afraid they will die before they can cast their vote.

I'm wishing I'd signed up for absentee voting just so I could have my ballot filled out & ready to go by now.

Speaking of long lines at the polls, I think maybe this is good news? Yesterday was the last day to register in the state of Washington and apparently there were hours-long waits just to register. I'm hoping this means people are voting for change.

Cool Hand · #6 10-20-2004, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by wildernesse

The really awesome thing I found out recently is that Athens transit system, The Bus, is providing transportation completely free of charge on Election Day. Their website even gives you the bus routes to the polling places in town.

This has nothing to do with voting or the buses in Athens, but your post just reminded me how much I miss Athens, Georgia. I went to graduate school there in the 80s, and it provided me with some of the fondest memories of my life, and with some of my best lifetime friends. I have visited several times since I left, and each time I fall in love with the town and its whole vibe again.

Cool Hand