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[which_chick]

We're getting actual voting machines this year! There will be no more #2 pencil fill-in-the-dot ballots for us. No, siree! We are going to have real, live voting machines like the big cities had probably thirty years ago. It's progress, of a sort. I'm going to the voting machine training session tomorrow afternoon at the County Commissioner's office, an activity I expect to be significantly easier (mentally and physically) than going to my real job.

Truly, we are living in the future!

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[electroweak.livejournal.com]

"It's not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes."

--Probably not said by Stalin, but attributed to him.

[ardvaark99999.livejournal.com]

"It's not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes."

--Probably not said by Stalin, but attributed to him.

I agree on the attribution. Stalin probably said something more like:

"It's not who votes that counts, but who kills the person who counts the votes that counts."

[brni.livejournal.com]

damn. i wish we had #2 pencil fill-in-the-dot ballots. instead we have these evil diebold machines that will let you push buttons on a screen and vote for whoever it's programmed to let win.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I was surprised -- PA did not require a verifiable paper trail to be part of the election upgrades to meet HAVA (Help America Vote Act, 2002) standards but our county commissioners felt we needed that anyway, so we got voting machines what have real, verifiable paper trails. You don't trust the machine, you can open it up and count the dots on the paper ballots using top-of-the-line meat-based technology. And we still did it under budget. (Only county in PA to manage this without needing additional county money.) Huzzah!