Comments:

sheila - 2006-11-08 21:20:36
Doug, I'm sorry about the snafu in Denver. I'm just surprised that there wasn't more of the same. We still use paper ballots here, thank heaven, and there was no one there with us when we went to vote. Needless to say I'm pretty tickled at the outcome!
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Bozoette Mary - 2006-11-09 10:18:32
Here in Maryland the voting officials actually learned from the fiasco during the primary! I know -- amazing! But the electronic voting went very smoothly for us.
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Sunshyn - 2006-11-09 11:31:47
We're still on paper in Sacramento County, too, thank God. Although my wrist aches when I'm done filling in all the bubbles with black Bic pen. A young man drove up to me outside work on voting day, asking where he could get his voter packet. Apparently he registered but then got nothing in the mail. It was his first election. He had his receipt, with the address of the Secretary of State building on it, so I sent him there. I hope he got to vote...
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Bex - 2006-11-09 12:08:14
Love those old fashioned paper ballots, filled in with felt-tip pens. Why fix something that isn't broken? They work, they leave a trail, and oh, did I say, they work? We are way too preoccupied with using modern technology when in some instances, keeping things the old fashioned way is always better. Like voting, and kissing. No technology needed!
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John Bailey - 2006-11-09 17:15:41
Yup, we're stuck with paper, too, and we like it that way. The mistake with using auditors to assure quality of large (government) projects is that they are used only to check after the event, when things have gone wrong. Used throughout the project process to assure quality and performance targets are met, they <i>prevent</i> things from going wrong... and you get your money's worth of them.
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Jim - 2006-11-09 20:42:52
Headline in this morning's Providence Journal: "No pulse needed to be among R.I.'s registered voters." The article goes on to say that almost five thousand people who aree on the Social Security Administration's Death Master List are alos on the state's registered voter list. Some of these people died as long ago as 1989. The 4991 dead registered voters were composed of 2394 registered Democrats, 391 Republicans, and 2296 unaffiliated. It will take a few weeks for the paper to be able to determine how many of them actually cast a vote this week.
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