Did you all remember to vote today? I stopped by the my polling place around 4:00 this afternoon. We had the pleasure of voting on those electronic machines here in Indianapolis. Apparently a number of people voting on them received a "duplicate vote" message, and they had to revote two or three times before their vote was computed. How encouraging!
Fortunately I didn't receive such a message.
What ever happened to those voting booths? Do you remember those? They looked like telephone booths with a curtain. We would enter the booth, pull a big lever and the curtain would close. We would flip a few switches, pull the lever again, the curtain would open back up and we were done! I know they were rather noisy, but there was something comforting in all of that clinking and clanking and whirling. I KNEW the machine was doing something. These electronic voting machines scare me a little. Three counties in Indiana had problems with them today, and the city of Muncie had to contact the courts in order to leave their polling places open an hour longer because of all the trouble they had.
Well at least the way you vote over there is now electronic....
Here in australia, it is so out of date, I've been wondering if we will ever get those electronic voting machines....
We get our name marked off in a book when we go in....because its compulsory to vote, if we dont, we get fined......
We still have the little booth, but now they are made out of cardboard....and we get a huge sheet with all the candidates names on them to mark our vote with a pencil.....then we have to fold it up and slip it in the big box......