Votated

[greatbearmd]

Jeff and I just got back from voting. I figured it would be less of a hassle to go now before the rest of the huddled masses come home from work, as the evenings tend to be much more crowded. About 15 minutes and we were both done. Only a handful of people there this time

Comments

[teddyb]

I never got to use one of the older style voting machines. Both Idaho and California were using punch cards (with the notorious potential for "hanging chads") by the time I was old enough to register and vote.

[maxauburn]

I miss the "Ker-Chunk!" sound too.. but, as long as I am voting, any sound it makes when I do so is good!

[ciddyguy]

I miss the big lumbering voting machines too but as I came an adult, they were being phased out, now our state is pretty much all mail in these days so there is no audible sound to let you know it's done except fold, insert, lick security envelope, stick in mailing envelope, sign it, affix stamp and mail (of which I did dutifully today thankyouverymuch.

[geometrician]

My earliest memories of the voting process were those machines with the levers and the big ker-chunk at Albert Einstein High School in Montgomery County.

Here in Wisconsin we connect two ends of an arrow with a black line, and slide the giant ballot into an electronic counter.

[progbear]

I’ve never seen one of those voting machines in real life, only on TV, and have no clue how they would even work. Since I was of voting age, we’ve always had the “fill in the spot” voting cards, kind of like a Scantron™ sheet only with black marker pens instead of #2 pencils.