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Pez Donating Member (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 07:49 PM
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what is your state's voting method?
here in nyc (well, where i vote anyway) we have the booth-- turn the metal switch for your party. i usually run my finger down the Democrat line and pull that lever, with all my strength, to the left. very symbolic ;-)

it's strange that there isn't a standard for voting. it would be simple, but yet it is not implemented. doesn't that strike anyone else as odd? why not take something that works and is reliable, and use it across the country?
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TSIAS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 07:50 PM
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1. Touchscreens
here in Florida.
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Submariner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 09:30 PM
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10. Here in WPB county
Harris and Jebby scrap the black vote. That's the FLA method. Touchscreens, punchcards....no difference.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 07:54 PM
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2. Optical scanners
here in Minnesota. Diebold has not yet taken over - we still have a paper trail.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 07:56 PM
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3. In NYC - like you. Pataki will bring Diebold in soon - don't worry!
Right after Bloomberg buys a vote for non-partisan elections in NYC! They are slaughtering us - and we are just sitting there and taking it!
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 07:57 PM
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4. Michigan has five, I think.
My precinct uses regular ballots that you mark, and I guess they're scanned.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 08:02 PM
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5. we have paper ballots that are counted by putting them into a feeder
machine thing. I would imagine the rest of
Alaska is that way too. Oregon has statewide
mail in balloting.
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Freddie Stubbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 08:13 PM
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6. Here in Pennsylvania it varies by counties
Soem use punch cards, some use lever machines, some use touch screen computers, and some still use paper ballots.
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 08:16 PM
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7. Republican. n/t
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Philosophy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 08:36 PM
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8. In Alabama we just pray
We don't need to actually vote - God will choose the candidate He wants to win.
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Sean Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 09:17 PM
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9. In Utah we let the LDS Church vote for us!
Edited on Sat Oct-25-03 09:18 PM by Sean Reynolds
;-)

Na' we have punchcards.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-03 09:33 PM
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11. In sm. town Maine it is paper.
In little bigger places more up to date stuff is around. I would be happy to see the mark on the paper come back.It is easy, cheap, little slower, can keep a record. I am sure it is the news that wants to know the vote 2 min. after the lights go out. Lets go back to the old cheap way and just have yo wait a few hr. for the count.
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genius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 01:26 AM
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12. California's going rigged electronic thanks to Kevin Shelley
We are asking everyone to register permanent absentee to create a voter-verifiable paper trail.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 06:23 AM
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13. For Federal, State and County elections...
... we use the infamous punchcard method. For municipal, school board, township, special questions (referenda), etc., we use paper ballots. Beginning with next March's primary, we will use the optical scanning method, as will all adjoining counties.
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