I live in San Diego (where it looks like 1/2 of the polling places had problems). I voted in the election, and it was quite uncomfortable for a few reasons.
1- The machines were clearly running some sort of Windows system (not sure which), and I've NEVER even secure ones like Win2K crash on me (heavy sarcasm)
2- The people running the polling place had an average age of about 93. I can just imagine them attempting to troubleshoot a DLL error while my vote is being eaten.
3- To review my choices, I had to go back. It didn't give me a nice summary screen, I had to move forward and back across multiple screens to see my choices. Since I'm a Green Party member, I had less screens to scroll through.
4- The most chilling- no reciept. You touch the screen to cast the ballot, and it just goes back to the main screen. All previous elections with punchcards, you received a ticket from your ballot, so you could find a copy of it later (if you wanted). Sure I doubt anyone does, but not having any record of my vote (other than the fact that I signed in) was quite uncomfortable.
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I live in San Diego (where it looks like 1/2 of the polling places had problems). I voted in the election, and it was quite uncomfortable for a few reasons.
1- The machines were clearly running some sort of Windows system (not sure which), and I've NEVER even secure ones like Win2K crash on me (heavy sarcasm)
2- The people running the polling place had an average age of about 93. I can just imagine them attempting to troubleshoot a DLL error while my vote is being eaten.
3- To review my choices, I had to go back. It didn't give me a nice summary screen, I had to move forward and back across multiple screens to see my choices. Since I'm a Green Party member, I had less screens to scroll through.
4- The most chilling- no reciept. You touch the screen to cast the ballot, and it just goes back to the main screen. All previous elections with punchcards, you received a ticket from your ballot, so you could find a copy of it later (if you wanted). Sure I doubt anyone does, but not having any record of my vote (other than the fact that I signed in) was quite uncomfortable.