One thing about the Canadian voting process that I haven't seen anyone mention concerns the unique number at the top of each ballot. Voter anonymity is important, but ensuring that votes can't be bought is also critical, and the number provides that.
At the last election, when I received my ballot, the number on top of the ballot was dutifully recorded by one of people at the table. I went behind the screen, marked my X, and folded up the paper. When I returned to the table, the person ensured that the number on the ballot was the same, and then tore off the number and passed me the ballot to place in the box (in full sight).
A common practice in struggling 'democracies' is to provide the voter with a filled in ballot, and the voter gets paid when he or she returns with a blank ballot. The unique number on the Canadian ballot prevents that practice. If I had tore off the number before leaving the screened area, I would have invalidated it.
I finally seem to have made some progress - during the initial boot screen (the black one with text on the bottom), there's an option to press F8. I did so, and after several tries, I chose the option to use last known good configuration.
The first try did not work, but just moments ago I tried again and it DID work. YAY! I'm finally logged in! Whew. I guess I should make a backup now (I really should have done it before, I know).
There's several people on the Apple Support forums with the same problem. All but one of the computers appear to be Dells.
OK, so it's not just me. I don't have a raid drive, and I didn't see any errors during installation. I think I have SP3.
When I boot, it gets to the Windows 2000 Professional splash screen, with 'Starting up...' and a progress bar on the bottom. It gets about 75% of the way, and then stops. Argh. I guess it's off to Apple's knowledge base.
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At the last election, when I received my ballot, the number on top of the ballot was dutifully recorded by one of people at the table. I went behind the screen, marked my X, and folded up the paper. When I returned to the table, the person ensured that the number on the ballot was the same, and then tore off the number and passed me the ballot to place in the box (in full sight).
A common practice in struggling 'democracies' is to provide the voter with a filled in ballot, and the voter gets paid when he or she returns with a blank ballot. The unique number on the Canadian ballot prevents that practice. If I had tore off the number before leaving the screened area, I would have invalidated it.
I finally seem to have made some progress - during the initial boot screen (the black one with text on the bottom), there's an option to press F8. I did so, and after several tries, I chose the option to use last known good configuration. The first try did not work, but just moments ago I tried again and it DID work. YAY! I'm finally logged in! Whew. I guess I should make a backup now (I really should have done it before, I know). There's several people on the Apple Support forums with the same problem. All but one of the computers appear to be Dells.
OK, so it's not just me. I don't have a raid drive, and I didn't see any errors during installation. I think I have SP3. When I boot, it gets to the Windows 2000 Professional splash screen, with 'Starting up...' and a progress bar on the bottom. It gets about 75% of the way, and then stops. Argh. I guess it's off to Apple's knowledge base.