I'm still waiting to see lines of white rural voters wrapping around a cornfield. What did Gore lose by? 500 votes? I'm sure you can easily detract 500 voters in any district if there's no way to get to a booth in under 3 hours.
Well, my friend has lived there for 14 years and said it was something that they* decided to do after the most recent census. Meanwhile, the right leaning precinct at the same polling place has only 800 registered voters in it and NO line. *I don't know who THEY are.
A lot of things "should" happen that don't. At least, not always. It's not reasonable to assume that there will never be problems. Nor is it reasonable to go right from "logistical issues at some polling places" to "OMG Democracy is Doomed!!" I'm pretty sure we occupy the middle ground, where human beings are flawed, but muddle through regardless. It strikes me as an overreaction. And Tom, I'm not picking on you - several people have done it here, which is why I'm geting tired of seeing it.
And we spend billions on useless election propaganda. Hard to see how anyone thinks this isn't alarmingly backwards.
Seriously though, Roseanne and Cindy Sheehan were on my ballot, I think for Peace and Freedom party. If they didn't make it onto ballots nationwide there's no way they can win.
That's the kind of machine I voted on during the primaries. Never did trust those ********ers. I was pleasantly surprised to be handed a paper ballot this morning.
The wait was only 40 minutes. Not too bad. In the hallway between the two wings of the school, posted were assignments from the school children on "If I were President." Interesting how a number of the kids wrote that they would lower taxes. Jobs and housing were the next big topics. Twice the screen did not record my vote correctly. I had to touch the incorrect vote and touch the correct box. I am certain that it would have been confusing to older voters.
Barb, it's not a complaint about lines, but rather the obvious collapsing of several precincts without increasing machine numbers. 3000/30 to 3000/10, say.
The uploader has a thread on reddit where he's answered everything. It seems pretty legit. And I don't even know if I'd call it a fix as much as just a problematic machine. People get bad smartphones that do the same thing.
Voted, now working half-assedly. I'll go for a run this evening and get a bottle of Wild Turkey. Once I'm properly liquored up and wandering about my place in my underwear, I'll also be armed. Don't come 'round here.
My 6th grade voted 16 to 5 for McGovern. We were quite surprised to learn the following week that our parents were not normal.
It was Reagan-Carter 1980 when I learned I lived in a predominantly conservative town. Second grade, me and one other guy raised our hands for Carter when they asked who our parents were voting for. That pretty much stayed the same all the way through grade school.
Probably real, since election officials confirmed the machine was taken out of service, re-calibrated and is now back in service: http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/06/machine-turns-vote-for-obama-into-one-for-romney/
My neighborhood was lower middle-class white, a California version of Archie Bunker Land. Before Ronald Reagan, those people weren't Reagan Democrats. They were just Democrats.