Doing this in easy-to-read Python is why the IBM interview is sooooo significant. I really want to use the lazy functional language Haskell for everything (I'm a power freak). I wouldn't mind using Scheme but I'm having enough trouble talking my boss into letting me use Python. Extended functional language and/or ('C') stackless capabilities in Python is just what I want so I can have even more fun programming.
Perl, C, FORTRAN, Pascal and AWK are a purely procedural (not even OO) languages. Functional languages are to large reflecting telescopes what these languages are to binoculars and it does boil down to vision preceded by imagination.
The problem is not the EC, it is the Census. The EC votes would match the popular vote better if the US Census were conducted more often, say every three, four or five years. The reason it cannot be done now is because the idiot (Republican congress) insists on physical, hand counting which is less reliable than other (statistical) methods.
The voting machines in my county in New Mexico, which does not require any sort of recount, allow editing. Every selection button is lighted and you can change selection at any time until you press a big 'commit' button which finalizes and ends your voting. We do not handle the ballot cards or whatever before or after the voting. All is automatic.
I'm sure these machines are costly. What is generally needed are terminals or thin clients in each voting booth that are connected to a local Linux precinct server. The stations would allow a clear presentation of the candidates and/or issues, one per one-or-more screens, and would allow editing and confirmation as should all well designed software. And because everything would be done in software the cost would be drastically reduced. The precinct server would be connected via dial-up or wireless to a master server that would act as backup to it should it fail. In addition to a record of votes maintained on disk, it would write a paper tape or punch card copy of each voters selections immediately after they finish voting.
The closed system should NOT be connected to the Internet.
Absentee votes could easily be handled online through the Internet or a dial-up BBS.
And who was behind the blacks turned away and denied the right to vote. They were told there were not enough ballots or they were stoped and asked for their ID and then told they could not vote because they were convicted felons or were told that they're race did not match the county records. This is why Jesse jackson has pettitioned the Attorney General to investigate. The governor of any state has influnce and control throughout all divisions of the state government.
Viewing the ballot on a web page makes it clear as Christmas. No one should think their overly intelligent because they can understand the reduced ballot immediatly on a web page. What size was it in the booth and how might it look to someone requiring reading glasses who Would tend to focus on the names they were looking for on the left of the ballot ignoring the names on the right if they were up-close to it and it was larger than 640X400 pixel image on your screen? Even you can't see the forest when your standing in the middle of it.
Over 19,000 voters voted for two candidates. Why.
Think!
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People tend to dislike and resent what they don't understand.
Doing this in easy-to-read Python is why the IBM interview is sooooo significant. I really want to use the lazy functional language Haskell for everything (I'm a power freak). I wouldn't mind using Scheme but I'm having enough trouble talking my boss into letting me use Python. Extended functional language and/or ('C') stackless capabilities in Python is just what I want so I can have even more fun programming.
Perl, C, FORTRAN, Pascal and AWK are a purely procedural (not even OO) languages. Functional languages are to large reflecting telescopes what these languages are to binoculars and it does boil down to vision preceded by imagination.
The problem is not the EC, it is the Census. The EC votes would match the popular vote better if the US Census were conducted more often, say every three, four or five years. The reason it cannot be done now is because the idiot (Republican congress) insists on physical, hand counting which is less reliable than other (statistical) methods.
The voting machines in my county in New Mexico, which does not require any sort of recount, allow editing. Every selection button is lighted and you can change selection at any time until you press a big 'commit' button which finalizes and ends your voting. We do not handle the ballot cards or whatever before or after the voting. All is automatic.
I'm sure these machines are costly. What is generally needed are terminals or thin clients in each voting booth that are connected to a local Linux precinct server. The stations would allow a clear presentation of the candidates and/or issues, one per one-or-more screens, and would allow editing and confirmation as should all well designed software. And because everything would be done in software the cost would be drastically reduced. The precinct server would be connected via dial-up or wireless to a master server that would act as backup to it should it fail. In addition to a record of votes maintained on disk, it would write a paper tape or punch card copy of each voters selections immediately after they finish voting.
The closed system should NOT be connected to the Internet.
Absentee votes could easily be handled online through the Internet or a dial-up BBS.
And who was behind the blacks turned away and denied the right to vote. They were told there were not enough ballots or they were stoped and asked for their ID and then told they could not vote because they were convicted felons or were told that they're race did not match the county records. This is why Jesse jackson has pettitioned the Attorney General to investigate. The governor of any state has influnce and control throughout all divisions of the state government.
I think THE point was to PREVENT Gore from getting TOO MANY votes. Don't forget Bush's brother IS the GOVERNOR of Florida.
Viewing the ballot on a web page makes it clear as Christmas. No one should think their overly intelligent because they can understand the reduced ballot immediatly on a web page. What size was it in the booth and how might it look to someone requiring reading glasses who Would tend to focus on the names they were looking for on the left of the ballot ignoring the names on the right if they were up-close to it and it was larger than 640X400 pixel image on your screen? Even you can't see the forest when your standing in the middle of it. Over 19,000 voters voted for two candidates. Why. Think!