Some PRIME voter stupid here
Feb. 6th, 2008 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wendyzskiEven better than the election official punching out the poll worker (worker to the hospital, official charged with battery), described as "a long-standing feud that boiled over"....
Now in Chicago, you can usually choose between touch-screen and paper ballots. I usually choose whatever is available first, so I've used both before. Touch-screen you get a plastic stylus to poke at your choices, so they don't get nasty greasy fingerprints on the screen. Paper ballots get you a particular kind of pen that that you use to "connect" the two ends of an arrow signifying your choices.
In my ward though thankfully not in my precinct, a poll worker handed the plastic stylus to people taking paper ballots. When they asked why it wasn't making any marks, they were told by the worker that it was a "special invisible ink pen" that only the computer could read!
Of course, the machine that reads the ballots spit them back as blank, and the poll worker pressed the manual override to make the machine accept them!
Luckily, someone reported this nonsense fairly early on, and only about 20 "blank" ballots were put through before the Board of Elections troubleshooter got there and figured out what was going on. Sigh.
Now in Chicago, you can usually choose between touch-screen and paper ballots. I usually choose whatever is available first, so I've used both before. Touch-screen you get a plastic stylus to poke at your choices, so they don't get nasty greasy fingerprints on the screen. Paper ballots get you a particular kind of pen that that you use to "connect" the two ends of an arrow signifying your choices.
In my ward though thankfully not in my precinct, a poll worker handed the plastic stylus to people taking paper ballots. When they asked why it wasn't making any marks, they were told by the worker that it was a "special invisible ink pen" that only the computer could read!
Of course, the machine that reads the ballots spit them back as blank, and the poll worker pressed the manual override to make the machine accept them!
Luckily, someone reported this nonsense fairly early on, and only about 20 "blank" ballots were put through before the Board of Elections troubleshooter got there and figured out what was going on. Sigh.
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Date: 2008-02-06 04:27 pm (UTC)Result? 800,000 voided votes
Not sure if it works or not...
Date: 2008-02-06 04:55 pm (UTC)My gut reaction is that election officials spend far more energy on figuring out ways to toss out votes, than they do on any other part of the processes.
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Date: 2008-02-06 05:17 pm (UTC)That is how the Wisconsin primary works: the ballot has candidates for all parties, but votes should only be within one party.