In Britain, you vote like this - you get a piece of paper with the candidates' names on it. You mark an "X" next to the name and stick it into a ballot box. It works fine: while it's not perfect, we've never had a hanging chad issue.
Just a suggestion.
Regards, Ivan
1 posted on
06/26/2004 2:58:52 AM PDT by
MadIvan
To: Luircin; Fiddlstix; lainde; Denver Ditdat; Judith Anne; Desdemona; alnick; knews_hound; ...
2 posted on
06/26/2004 2:59:15 AM PDT by
MadIvan
(Ronald Reagan - proof positive that one man can change the world.)
To: MadIvan
I am for going back to paper ballots, myself.
To: MadIvan
Canada follows the same practice. Its "low tech" and it works.
4 posted on
06/26/2004 3:04:32 AM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: MadIvan
No way. Some of the local ordinances we vote on are short essays.
In the last election I was voting for president, voting on some local sewer ordinances and county bond issues.
Ya couldn't get that on a slip of paper.
5 posted on
06/26/2004 3:10:48 AM PDT by
zarf
To: MadIvan
6 posted on
06/26/2004 4:02:34 AM PDT by
bigghurtt
(Proud Rapid Response Digital Brown Shirt in the VRWC)
To: MadIvan
Oddly enough, in my voting district, a small town in east Texas, we still use PAPER BALLOTS.
The ballots are counted in front of representatives of both major parties.
The chance for fraud is small as either side would rat the other one out in a second.
Hell, even the French can handle voting with PAPER BALLOTS in nationwide elections.
Paper ballots are the way to go. Count 'em in public, invite the news services.
7 posted on
06/26/2004 4:11:43 AM PDT by
LibKill
(Once more into the breach, dear friends!)
To: MadIvan
Poor Mr Rouverol got a bad rap. I was bemused to hear the Dems make the accusation that such machines were only used in "poor districts with large minority populations" in FLA -- as if there was some conspiracy to ignore these votes. Much of the public was taken in by this.
I live in an affluent and rural section of California where these machines were in use for years. Old people who are easily confused can have trouble with simple act of making an X in the right spot. It's your responsibility to get it right, and I've never had a problem with Mr. Rouverol's machine.
8 posted on
06/26/2004 6:01:18 AM PDT by
GVnana
To: MadIvan
I've used punchcard ballots all my life and never had a problem with them. To paraphrase the old military saying - there's no such thing as bad punchcards, only bad punchers.
To: MadIvan
We still use them in my township in Wisconsin.
11 posted on
06/26/2004 6:39:07 AM PDT by
codercpc
To: MadIvan
Americans are hooked on electronic gadgets. There's nothing one does that Americans don't think can be done better with an electronic gadget.
Cell phones that transmit pictures, e-mail, Palm Pilots, - etc. Remote controls for everything -
If it isn't electronic, we don't want to use it.
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