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Tell Us About Your Voting Experience
T O P I C Discussion Started: 05-02-2006, 6:29 AM Add to the Discussion
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Some voters reported difficulties with the new electronic voting machines. Did you have any problems? Do you think the electronic machines make voting more efficient? Tell us about your voting experience.

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Boeing77 05-13-2006, 9:41 PM Add to the Discussion
Somehow I can't quite get rid of the thought that these voting machines are no different from Las Vegas style gambling machines. The house never loses. In this case, the house decides who wins. I don't trust these machines any farther than I can throw them, and I can imagine they're pretty heavy.

angiebabe 05-03-2006, 1:24 PM Add to the Discussion
I'm amazed at the fuss about this - and about the people who never can say something positve, they just look for something to **** about. And ****ing about the machine not printing a receipt or copy of your ballot is just immature and ridiculous!

How did things go the day you went to school the first time? Did you know everything? Did you find your room the first time? Were you just a little bit shy, if not altogether backward?

Give it a rest already! This is a step forward and should be looked at that way. 86% of the people who responded to this website's poll said they had no problem. So why is it that the other 14% make so much noise that they're the only ones anyone hears? And why is the news media (ONE MORE TIME!) spending so much time on the negative effects instead of applauding what to me is a really great way to vote?

inthestix 05-03-2006, 8:55 AM Add to the Discussion
RodMiller,

Did you get a receipt showing how you voted under the old punch-card system? Of course not. Why would you get one now?

BobK2001 05-02-2006, 9:32 PM Add to the Discussion
From what I have been hearing about what is going on at the polling places. These glitches are unexcusable! Peoples basic civil rights have been violated and people responsible need to be made to pay the price for it! Prison time anyone?

BobK2001 05-02-2006, 9:29 PM Add to the Discussion
My suggestion to everyone who wants to be private about thier declarations, We are now permitted to vote absentee without giving a reason. I would suggest we all request absentee ballots. We can vote in the privacy of our own homes...I voted absentee this time because I had to work 12 hrs today. I think I will vote absentee from now on. Thus I don't have to use them machines that rig your votes!

BobK2001 05-02-2006, 9:20 PM Add to the Discussion
I voted absentee this time,,, I do not trust Diebold , since the CEO guaranteed a Bush victory with his machines!!!! What ever happened to the simple lever machines? It was simple and left an easy paper trail. The votes are counted very easily! I was a teller for our local union election back in the 80's, We had the results for our election in mannor of minutes...Using the lever machines...

MZ 05-02-2006, 9:05 PM Add to the Discussion
Apparently many of you don't know how a Primary works... You always delcare a Party everytime you vote in a Primary. As a member of the Republican or Democrat party you are entitled to pick who you want to run in the election. If you decide to be Independent you can only vote on issues. If you're not a Democrat why should you be allowed to vote who runs for election under the Democratic Party and vice versa for the Republican Party? When the general election comes around in November, then you can decide between parties.

Rauha 05-02-2006, 8:29 PM Add to the Discussion
To gaebelein and Aplechaty (and others): I have been voting in Ohio since 1974 - for at least that long voters have had to declare party affiliations to vote for people (rather than just issues) in the in a primary election. You can't mix and match candidates at this stage - the primaries are how the parties select who they want to run under their "flag" in the fall. What may shock you even more is that whichever you choose is public information. (It has been for years - I have worked at jobs where they pulled the voter records to check. It is one of the reasons my spouse has voted "issues only" in the primary elections for decades.) If you check out the voter lists outside the polling place you will discover information about yourself you probably were not aware was public.

I did notice, however, that the party affiliation question did seem more jarring this time. I think instead of asking, "Do you still want a democratic/republican party ballot verifying that I still wanted the ballot," they asked me to actually declare the name of the party. So, while the requirement hasn't changed, I agree there was something unsettling about how the question was asked this year.

Peace.

whatistrue 05-02-2006, 7:59 PM Add to the Discussion
Judge Orders Polling Place To Stay Open Until 9:30 P.M. story makes false statement:

"The switch from punch cards to more sophisticated technology was mandated by the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002, prompted by the punch-card-driven mess in Florida following the 2000 presidential election."

This statement in today's news on 5 is dead wrong. HAVA mandated only 1 such machine per precinct to provide means for handicapped access. The language Bob Ney placed in the HAVA was worded to make believe that all had to be machines.

HAVA provided federal funding for the purchase of electronic voting machines, but it provided a second option for conducting federal elections after Jan. 1, 2006 ? paper ballots.

The rush to use largely unproven touch screens was all marketing driven.

Pay attention, people.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

gaebelein 05-02-2006, 5:42 PM Add to the Discussion
my girlfriends RA and JM at work did not have to SAY out loud what party they were voting for in THIS primary-- because they still used the punch cards at their voting sites. Yes you have to pick and no you cant choose both I know this but in the past ( and currently with punch type cards) you did NOT have to declare OUT LOUD what party you were voting for.

Lisa

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