[CTS] Re: Please do not forget to vote today!!
- From: Steve <spatz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 00:04:07 -0500
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What I can't understand is why a 'smart' terminal has to be on site. In
this day and age the county courthouse or whatever should have a mainframe
or something that has remote 'dumb' terminals doing the actual voting. Who
knows though.
At 10:49 PM 11/5/02 , you wrote:
>Here's a typical example of why people make fun of those in rural areas as
>"hayseeds", "hicks", etc...
>
>We live in a town of 800, with the unincorporated area around it also voting
>at the same place. The machines are electronic with a motor to roll paper
>around for write-ins and a touch pad for balloted votes. The total
>population of registered voters is around 1500. There are 12 hours, 6am to
>6pm, to vote in. Say 1200 eligible voters show in that 12 hours...that's 200
>per hour divied by 60 minutes per hour, or 3.5 voters PER MINUTE. Guess what
>we have at our polling place - ONE MACHINE and ONE SPARE. When they opened
>at 6am the primary machine was DOA and they spare became the primary. The
>primary machine broke once per 30 minutes all day long, average 10 minutes
>to get the machine back on and usable. Yada, yada, yada - you get the idea.
>I was lucky enough to get in after they swapped the primary DOA with the
>spare at 6:05am
>
>Well my wife went at 10:30am - at noon she was 5 people away - BROKE again.
>They had the one tech across the county with yet another broken machine and
>she had an appointment so she left to come back. I went back with her at
>3:15pm....she finally got her 12 seconds of glory at 6:35pm with 200 others
>that hadn't voted still there waiting that had come before the doors wrre
>locked at 6:00pm exactly. It's now 9:45 pm and they still have 25 people to
>let vote since the machines have locked up or in other ways broken every 30
>mins or so. The amchine is not worn out by any means either - the mechanical
>counter that shows total votes in the machine's life only had 3300 on it
>when she voted, and the LED for votes since today's poll started was 975. Go
>figure - 4.5 hrs to vote for 12 seconds.
>
>Many people got pissed and left - what a shame. We may end up with one of
>the people that have no business running get into an office because 10 or 15
>people left and didn't vote, despite goingt hrough all the trouble to get
>out and give it a shot.
>
>I'm applying for absentee next time around and voting at home, by mail, 2
>weeks in advance. I qualify with my job being so flexible and a service call
>possibly being away. This screwed up system will not keep me from voting but
>I will find an easier way...
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