[geeks] Re: [rescue] RE: Small schools.& elections & Bush

[Joshua D. Boyd]

In palm beach, you enter you vote by punching holes in the ballot.  Then,
a machine reads where the wholes are, while simultaneosly damaging the
cards (hence the continued confusion during subsequent hand counts).

Where I live, we pull levers on a machine, which tallies what levers were
pulled.  It is a bit better, but it subject to the cogs and stuff wearing
out and causing failures.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, David Cantrell wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:53:38PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> 
> > FYI West Palm Beach is *not* a poor, low-income, "black" or other
> > down-trodden area. They simply choose (I assume) not to spend lots of money
> > on their ballot machines...
> 
> What is it with these ballot machines anyway?  In .uk, papers are counted
> manually, and results known within 24 hours.  Including areas like the
> Scottish highlands and islands where there are no roads and everyhting
> has to go by carrier pigeon.
> 
> Let me guess.  The reason is ... "ooh, machine! shiny!"
> 
> -- 
> David Cantrell | david at cantrell.org.uk | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/
> 
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