#150
I was voter #150 in my ward.
New Jersey (or at least Hudson County) uses electronic voting machines, but at least they're not touch-screens. There's a paper ballot fastened over a panel with lights and switches. When I pressed the square for my choice, I could feel a physical switch engaging behind the paper, and a little green X lit up behind my choice. When I was done, I hit the big red button below the panel, and that was it.
The downside is that I think my votes was still recorded electronically. Don't these people know you can't trust electronic recording of votes? Haven't they heard of wave-particle duality and quantum tunneling?! My vote could be smeared into some indeterminate third-party state!
No matter what, here's a reason to be happy.
New Jersey (or at least Hudson County) uses electronic voting machines, but at least they're not touch-screens. There's a paper ballot fastened over a panel with lights and switches. When I pressed the square for my choice, I could feel a physical switch engaging behind the paper, and a little green X lit up behind my choice. When I was done, I hit the big red button below the panel, and that was it.
The downside is that I think my votes was still recorded electronically. Don't these people know you can't trust electronic recording of votes? Haven't they heard of wave-particle duality and quantum tunneling?! My vote could be smeared into some indeterminate third-party state!
No matter what, here's a reason to be happy.