Fat lot of good it did.

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I seem to have timed my arrival at the polling place well this morning. There was a crowd leaving, and many driving in behind me, but I didn't have much of a wait. I noticed someone collecting exit polls outside the building, and there were folks filling out the exit poll forms. Ahead of me were, before the main voting area, were three or four ( Read more... )

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Civic irresponsibility? No. It's just that there is nothing to vote on where I live, so there is no voting. The nearest vote to me is a school district vote in western Martin County, and I'm not in that district.

I voted last week. The results of the election have been cussed and discussed to excess already. But there are some aspects of the voting process that are troublesome.

When I registered to vote, some time ago, I had to show photo ID to prove that I was who I said I was. This makes sense.

When I went to vote I did not need to show any ID. This ( Read more... )

I got up an hour early to get to the polls nice and early. I got there a bit after I'd planned, about 10 minutes early. The hallway at the Knights of Columbus hall was already fairly crowded, but there was just enough room for a few more folks to wait inside. More were soon waiting in the entryway, and it wasn't much longer that the line ran ( Read more... )

"Those who do not understand unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly" -- Henry Spencer

Schmidt's Law: If you mess with something long enough, it will break.

The above lines are true for things other than unix. There have been a number of articles regarding the problems of voting machines and, indeed, almost any hidden electronic or even ( Read more... )