Civic Duty #1

[omorka]

Managed to make it to the early voting place after work today. Line was long but fast-moving. Crossed over to vote for one Libertarian (she was the only opposition to a particularly odious Republican member of the State Board of Education; I genuinely would prefer someone who wants to dismantle the whole edifice to this woman) and two Republicans (in both cases because I question the actual competence of their Democratic opposition).

Man, I hate these voting machines. Not only is there no paper trail, but they're physically awkward to operate, and slightly non-intuitive. They highlight things that aren't voting options, like the title of the position.

Comments

[mordath.livejournal.com]

Voting machines are one of my hot-button issues. I haven't been frothing about them this year, but they're horrible, horrible things.

[quantumduck.livejournal.com]

I agree about the terrible interface on the eSlate system. It's at least not as hackable as a Sequoia or Deibold system, but the interface is so bad I think it hurts the vote.

Also, it's still hackable...

http://ezinearticles.com/?What-They-Arent-Telling-You-About-The-eSlate-(Electronic-Voting)&id=344724

[northwall.livejournal.com]

who's incompetent? and why not just not vote in those races? did you actually LIKE what the republicans stood for?