Thankfully, in my county, every one is pleased with puttin' an "X" next to the name of the candidate you choose, but they don't invalidate your ballot if you use a check mark.

I also voted with the pen thingy, and it seemed to line up fine. Of course, now I am terribly worried.

Also, I checked out your voted advice, and seem to have followed it fairly closely. I particularly liked your advice on choosing judges, which is pretty much exactly what I did.

Oopsie. That should have read voter advice.

How about an electronic machine that you insert your card into, it prints your vote out on the card (that you can read) which is the confirmation of your electronic vote. Then drop your card (after checking it) into a box to be used in case of recount. Perhaps also a random number assigned to your vote that can be checked online.

Is it that difficult to design, or is someone trying to make it more convoluted than it needs to be.

i hear the democrats are looking into a voting machine idea where you insert your ATM card and they can wire the "walking around money" directly into your account as you vote.

Goodness, here in the backwoods of Indiana we have voted on computerized voting machines for the last three or four Presidential elections--and in California you're using a PEN?????

It's a special pen. (No, I don't know what's so special about it. I was perfectly OK with punching out chads as recently as October.)

And Annika, I don't get your Democrat/ATM joke. Am I really, really dense?

Bottom Line:

Living in a free society requires a minimum standard of intelligence, common sense and self sufficiency.
If you can not master the punch card ballot then you should not be allowed to vote:

Those who find punch card ballots "confusing" should also have their driver's licenses taken away because clearly they are a danger to large crowds of pedestrians. Even an illiterate can use a punch card ballot...he calmly raises his hand and says to an election volunteer: "I want to vote for X...please show me the hole to punch."

Remember, the entire "controversy" about punch card ballots began solely because the Dems lost Florida in '00.

No hun, you're not dense, that was one of my obscure historical references. i think it was the first Mayor Daley in Chicago who used to give "walking around money" to bums on the street in exchange for their votes on election day.

Greg can correct me if i'm wrong on that.

I still vote in my neck of redneckland (rural Pennsylvania) with a pencil, and I have to fill in the dot.

What's so hard with that?
You should at least be smarter than a bar of soap to be able to vote.

Perhaps it's not surprising that the Dems have gotten cheaper since Mayor Daley's era in Chicago...I recall a local news crew in Wisconsin caught some Gore volunteers passing out packs of cigarettes to Milwaukee's homeless on election eve.

Tourist tip: Don't ever try to give anything other than currency to bums in downtown Boston...they pull uninformed tourist bodies out of the Charles River a few times a year....It's not exactly a mugging in that they only want 10 or 20 bucks and they don't take your wallet: think of it as an evening pedestrian toll on the Charles River Esplanade.

Well, like I always says: Just because you can do something with a computer doesn't mean you have to. 'Round these parts we still use lever booths. You close the curtain with a handlebar, flick the levers next to the names of your choices, pull the handlebar to open the curtain and reset the levers for the next guy.
The votes are registered on a mechanical number dial. No electricity required. Just the way I like it! :)

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