I did it that way for about twenty years, and as I've already mentioned, we haven't had any egregious problems in my area. I like to go home two hours earlier, and don't want to go back. I think we averaged around a half a percent of error on the hand count, AFAICT we have had 100% accuracy (in my precincts) in the few years since we've had the machines. Maybe if Kansas was running similar hardware they wouldn't have this problem. We can now verify that the vote totals match in one hour, and get home before midnight.:)
In my precinct nobody bothers to watch unless their particular candidate is way out on the fringe, you know who I mean. They try to be annoying cranks, and are usually not quite up on the routine, however we accommodate them as best we can. "Watch, but don't stand in the * * way!/No, you can't take our voter tally outside."
Fortunately, I'm the only person in my precinct that has ever actually used it, I do it for practice in case I need to help or demonstrate. It does not seem very intuitive or easy to use. I suspect competition in the industry could encourage innovation, but these are government contracts -one can only imagine the various influences shaping the process. I envision something worthy of Twain's "Gilded Age", and laugh. Tax dollars for entertainment, not new.
@49 years of age, I'm still one of the youngest poll workers around my area, as I've been for the past 20 or so years I've been doing it. Kids nowadays, they just aren't interested in working 14 hours straight with a half-hour break, for less than a C-note. sheesh.
At the polling places I've worked, the (touchscreen) AutoMark machine (for voters with disabilities, &c.) marks a paper ballot, which is counted by the M100 scanner. After the polls close, we seal the marked ballots up in boxes which never get opened up unless there is a problem with the computer's count. The protocols (except for the software) seem fairly robust and transparent, and skeptics are welcome to watch. That's Contra Costa County, YMMV.
As the software is proprietary and secret, we can only speculate as to the cause for this irregularity. BTW I'm not working the polls May 19, I'm on VACATION.
I think getting decapitated was the statement. As I understand it, a reasonably skilled hangman can set up whether or not the neck breaks, &c., and decapitation can be part of that. Cutting off the head is like the final insult in Islamic culture, and very bad form for a hangman. (It COULD have been accidental, but I doubt that.) BTW I find this tormenting of prisoners embarrassing, but it doesn't surprise me. Some people have no shame.
I had no idea that was a racist saying, I too thought it was meant for sarcasm. Thanks to the all-knowing Wiki I guess now I know better. I'd better keep checking on another word some pseudo-literates seem to have trouble with, niggardly, as any day it could be edited in Wikipedia and become evil as well.
I got three free 19" ViewSonic monitors a couple of years back, saved the guy from having to ship them to China or whatever. I guess we have it a little better here in some ways. Sorry.
Amongst my several different experiences with the incompetence and criminality that is the LAPD, they were perusing my belongings one day whilst I was locked in the back of one of their cars. They got pretty excited about a crate of Thompson smg magazines &c. that I had. Once they determined that I hadn't committed any crimes they could prove and went away, imagine my surprise to discover that one box of.357 and two boxes of.45 caliber Black Talon ammunition had found a new, better qualified, owner. When the shmoogs set fire to the shopping centers and called it an "uprising", I didn't condone it, but I understood what they were talking about.
As I posted on the firehose, I noticed that when my mostly green conure got wet, she turned grey. All but the yellow and red bits, leading me to deduce that the green was not actually pigment but an iridescent effect of the feather's structure.
The last time that happened to me, I was in the WRONG part of Los Angeles. When they saw that I was mashing the throttle instead of the brake, they jumped the fuck out of my path and saved me the trouble of opening up with the Browning Auto-5 that I had in my other hand. Twits.
I, for one, believe that my personal observations support the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis. This does look like an interesting observation, but is it really correlating with terrestrial phenomena? Further study may be indicated.
AFAIK downforce is a very common term in F1 racing, which was mentioned early and often in TFA. On this planet the Greenbird weighs about 600kg. At any speed.
The CHP clocked me @ 47mph on a Big Wheel. It was downhill, however, and definitely not the record. One of my friends was clocked @ 55 going down Corral Hollow road towards Carnegie. The guy in the car couldn't keep up once they got into the twisties. Its a miracle that we survived our childhoods.
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I did it that way for about twenty years, and as I've already mentioned, we haven't had any egregious problems in my area. I like to go home two hours earlier, and don't want to go back. I think we averaged around a half a percent of error on the hand count, AFAICT we have had 100% accuracy (in my precincts) in the few years since we've had the machines. Maybe if Kansas was running similar hardware they wouldn't have this problem. We can now verify that the vote totals match in one hour, and get home before midnight. :)
In my precinct nobody bothers to watch unless their particular candidate is way out on the fringe, you know who I mean. They try to be annoying cranks, and are usually not quite up on the routine, however we accommodate them as best we can. "Watch, but don't stand in the * * way! /No, you can't take our voter tally outside."
Fortunately, I'm the only person in my precinct that has ever actually used it, I do it for practice in case I need to help or demonstrate. It does not seem very intuitive or easy to use. I suspect competition in the industry could encourage innovation, but these are government contracts -one can only imagine the various influences shaping the process. I envision something worthy of Twain's "Gilded Age", and laugh. Tax dollars for entertainment, not new.
It's a part time gig, take a day off your regular job and serve the community. Old school shit.
Maybe some *kid* should be hired to install big copper heatsinks and loud-ass fans in these units.
We use black felt-tip pens.
@49 years of age, I'm still one of the youngest poll workers around my area, as I've been for the past 20 or so years I've been doing it. Kids nowadays, they just aren't interested in working 14 hours straight with a half-hour break, for less than a C-note. sheesh.
At the polling places I've worked, the (touchscreen) AutoMark machine (for voters with disabilities, &c.) marks a paper ballot, which is counted by the M100 scanner. After the polls close, we seal the marked ballots up in boxes which never get opened up unless there is a problem with the computer's count. The protocols (except for the software) seem fairly robust and transparent, and skeptics are welcome to watch. That's Contra Costa County, YMMV.
As the software is proprietary and secret, we can only speculate as to the cause for this irregularity. BTW I'm not working the polls May 19, I'm on VACATION.
I think getting decapitated was the statement. As I understand it, a reasonably skilled hangman can set up whether or not the neck breaks, &c., and decapitation can be part of that. Cutting off the head is like the final insult in Islamic culture, and very bad form for a hangman. (It COULD have been accidental, but I doubt that.) BTW I find this tormenting of prisoners embarrassing, but it doesn't surprise me. Some people have no shame.
I had no idea that was a racist saying, I too thought it was meant for sarcasm. Thanks to the all-knowing Wiki I guess now I know better. I'd better keep checking on another word some pseudo-literates seem to have trouble with, niggardly, as any day it could be edited in Wikipedia and become evil as well.
I got three free 19" ViewSonic monitors a couple of years back, saved the guy from having to ship them to China or whatever. I guess we have it a little better here in some ways. Sorry.
Amongst my several different experiences with the incompetence and criminality that is the LAPD, they were perusing my belongings one day whilst I was locked in the back of one of their cars. They got pretty excited about a crate of Thompson smg magazines &c. that I had. Once they determined that I hadn't committed any crimes they could prove and went away, imagine my surprise to discover that one box of .357 and two boxes of .45 caliber Black Talon ammunition had found a new, better qualified, owner. When the shmoogs set fire to the shopping centers and called it an "uprising", I didn't condone it, but I understood what they were talking about.
Spring in Alberta, mmmmm.
I'm with Nelson Muntz on this one.
No one could own that dialog like he did.
As I posted on the firehose, I noticed that when my mostly green conure got wet, she turned grey. All but the yellow and red bits, leading me to deduce that the green was not actually pigment but an iridescent effect of the feather's structure.
I wonder how the "players" would do if they had their positions switched. Would the algorithms want re-writing?
The last time that happened to me, I was in the WRONG part of Los Angeles. When they saw that I was mashing the throttle instead of the brake, they jumped the fuck out of my path and saved me the trouble of opening up with the Browning Auto-5 that I had in my other hand. Twits.
I, for one, believe that my personal observations support the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis. This does look like an interesting observation, but is it really correlating with terrestrial phenomena? Further study may be indicated.
1:2 is a hell of a correlation.
AFAIK downforce is a very common term in F1 racing, which was mentioned early and often in TFA. On this planet the Greenbird weighs about 600kg. At any speed.
The CHP clocked me @ 47mph on a Big Wheel. It was downhill, however, and definitely not the record. One of my friends was clocked @ 55 going down Corral Hollow road towards Carnegie. The guy in the car couldn't keep up once they got into the twisties. Its a miracle that we survived our childhoods.
What I really hate is when TFA is misquoted in the summary, now I see that Jenkins said "tonne" which IS metric. D-oh!
I hate breaking out the calculator to compare 600kg to a ton. Relative increase, I guess.