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Voting mechanics
OK, so I've only ever voted in MA, and both municipalities I've voted in use paper ballots. Not anything tricky to understand, just basically scantron things: fill in the bubbles and you're done. Just like all those standardized tests everyone has to take these days, so the voters are prepared, as it were. The thought even of using a lever sort of machine makes me nervous, and computers doubly so, since they're theoretically hackable in even more ways. And there's no paper trail.
Please, someone explain why there isn't more standardization in how ballots are made and processed? OK, and why we don't all use a scantron sort of ballot, since it leaves a paper trail, and isn't tricky to use at all.
Nothing about whether the car-repair guys were involved in the election in this post. Or, there wasn't.
Please, someone explain why there isn't more standardization in how ballots are made and processed? OK, and why we don't all use a scantron sort of ballot, since it leaves a paper trail, and isn't tricky to use at all.
Nothing about whether the car-repair guys were involved in the election in this post. Or, there wasn't.
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What does it say? "Be nice to me, I voted"?
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Interesting, to me, is how Wolf's sticker is (theoretically) more national, and the GA one is state specific. Or maybe it's just that MA doesn't have any easily-identifiable images like a peach :-).
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Random fact: Georgia is actually not the biggest producer of peaches in the US; South Carolina is. (And on Interstate 85 about half an hour into South Carolina, there is a giant water tower with the bulb shaped like a peach.)
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