Comments on: Go Vote, People!

By: UF MIke

UF MIke — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:28:49 +0000

My polling place experience has taught me not to go near them. I subscribe to H.L. Mencken's aphorism that Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Let's face it: Politics is a tour through a sewer in a glass-bottomed turd. Feel free to hop aboard, but don't wonder later why something smells.

By: Reid

Reid — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:01:00 +0000

The polling lines for us independents were really short: I hardly had to wait at all to be effectively disenfranchised! No Representation without Affiliation!

By: Mike DeBonis

Mike DeBonis — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:59:27 +0000

I'm with KCinDC. To comport with the current style among certain local Democratic Party slates, OpticalScan4Life!

By: Darrow

Darrow — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:57:43 +0000

In and out around 11:OO Ballot #63 at Bancroft Elementary.
Skipped the emerging technology.

By: Nikolas Schiller

Nikolas Schiller — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:57:33 +0000

I was the 29th person to cast a ballot at precinct #137 and the first Statehood Green Party member to vote there today. Was in & out in 5 minutes and had no problems. Unlike the presidential primary election, I was not given a portion of my ballot to take home with me, so my only souvenir this time around is the generic "I voted" sticker.

By: KCinDC

KCinDC — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:05:25 +0000

I thought most precincts had just one electronic voting machine. It's mainly for people who can't use the paper ballots for some reason, so there's little reason to spend the money to have more. Let's stick with reliable, auditable optical-scan ballots rather than jumping further onto the electronic-voting bandwagon just as other jurisdictions are seeing the problems and starting to jump off.

By: Erik Wemple

Erik Wemple — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:28:26 +0000

I flew in and out at about 8:25. Funny thing: They gave me the option of a paper ballot and touch-screen. I chose to try out the emerging technology, which cost me several minutes. I had to wait for a woman who was using the touch-screen monitor, and she was taking her sweet time. Had I just chosen a paper ballot, I'd have been out of there much more quickly. I imagine that in the future, they'll have more than one touch-screen monitor in the polling place.