>> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 15:36:17 -0400, John W. Kennedy wrote
(in article 
):
> On Nov 3, 8:22 am, Amy Guskin  wrote:
>> And I mean, we do have that
>> too, but our few blind residents in our precinct do it both ways: we have
>> some who vote on the optical ballot with an assistant, and some who use the
>> electronic ballot with headphones.
> 
> Here in Morris County, NJ, we have the headphones, but everyone
> chooses to go with assistance, instead, once they're told that the
> headphone process takes about half an hour. <<
Yes, that's exactly what deters most of them.  We do have a few diehards who 
like the iVotronic, though.
>> We had a lousy time yesterday; the Fools at the Top removed all the
> upside-down printing from the signature books, so that we either had
> to spin the books around and around or stand in front of and facing
> the table just like the voters. <<
Gah!  I hope PA never gets wind of this!  We have enough trouble with the 
books, what with roughly 20% of the people trying to turn the book upside 
down even though we tell them every election that they don't have to.  We get 
to see their names rightside up, and they also get to see their names 
rightside up.  Why did they change this in your neck of the woods?  To save 
paper or something?
>> It roughly doubled the time to sign in
> each voter, and is going to make the cross-check error count soar,
> because:
> 
> Me: [handing voucher to voter] You are number 156. [writing 156 in
> book]
> 
> has now become:
> 
> Me: [handing voucher to voter] You are number 156. 156. 156. 156.
> [spinning book, knocking pen and voucher pad on floor] 156. 1 156.
> 156. 156. 156. [writing 156 in book] <<
Oh my gods, I _so_ feel your pain!  Although you should have had our new 
minority clerk, who was handling the pads of ballots (and thus the voter 
numbers) this time.  She took her sweet time calling them out (and in fact 
many times had to be prompted, in exasperated tones), so maybe she wouldn't 
have gotten the number called out to you until the poll book was turned back 
around, anyway.
>> And then there was the voter who took "write-in" a little too
> literally. We had to shut down one of our two machines until the
> county flying squad could come to clean the ink off. <<
HA!  What?  I mean, what is your primary method of voting?  We have optical 
ballots (ovals that you fill in with pens) that are fed into a scanner by the 
voter.  We also have the iVotronic which is only ever used by visually 
handicapped voters.  So I'm trying to understand what he/she got ink on!
We had fewer write-ins than usual this year, mainly because it was such a 
straightforward ballot.  Four races, all pretty major, so that cut down on 
people writing in their 8-year old children's names for fun.  We did get one 
"none of the above."
Amy
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