Votated

[greatbear]

Jeff and I just got back from voting. I figured it would be less of a hassle to go now before the rest of the huddled masses come home from work, as the evenings tend to be much more crowded. About 15 minutes and we were both done. Only a handful of people there this time.

I miss the old mechanical voting machines. There was always something satisfying about that healthy ker-chunk when you pulled the big red lever. Touch screens just have no soul.

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[geometrician.livejournal.com]

My earliest memories of the voting process were those machines with the levers and the big ker-chunk at Albert Einstein High School in Montgomery County.

Here in Wisconsin we connect two ends of an arrow with a black line, and slide the giant ballot into an electronic counter.