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jorno67

(1,986 posts)
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 05:26 PM Nov 2012

What was the method you used to vote today? [View all]

mine was the "fill in the oval with an ink pen and then feed it into the scanner" type.

What about yours? Do you trust it?


26 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
fill in the oval with an ink pen and then feed it into the scanner
18 (69%)
touch screen
5 (19%)
punch card
0 (0%)
Mechanical Lever Machines
0 (0%)
paper ballot
1 (4%)
I work for a major corporation - they vote for me
0 (0%)
7/11 coffee cups
0 (0%)
other
2 (8%)
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Mailed it two weeks ago. Wait Wut Nov 2012 #1
ditto senegal1 Nov 2012 #2
Option One - what I didn't like about this process was closeupready Nov 2012 #3
Same. TheKentuckian Nov 2012 #9
Same Ya Basta Nov 2012 #18
Exactly what we said when we voted today. kerouac2 Nov 2012 #21
Not a touch screen but a method where you touch treestar Nov 2012 #4
Absentee ballot by mail 2 weeks ago. n/t RebelOne Nov 2012 #5
Option #1, only with a pencil, no eraser provided. lpbk2713 Nov 2012 #6
No lines and paper ballots. Chula Vista CA maveric56 Nov 2012 #7
Draw a line XemaSab Nov 2012 #8
Filled optical style ballot with pencil. It will be counted by hand. GreenPartyVoter Nov 2012 #10
Ours was like the fill in the oval ballabosh Nov 2012 #11
Connect a broken arrow, then slide the form into a scanner so I have no idea how it was recorded. Scuba Nov 2012 #12
Same at my precinct in Alabama. My receipt? An "I Voted" sticker. trof Nov 2012 #26
My receipt was a sneer from a poll worker who I know to be a Republican (and she knows me too!). Scuba Nov 2012 #28
Mine was fill in the rectangle box then feed it into the black box madokie Nov 2012 #13
Hey! We use little rectangles, not ovals. dimbear Nov 2012 #14
Diebold in my precinct. justiceischeap Nov 2012 #15
OTHER: mail-in ballot hand delivered to polling place frylock Nov 2012 #16
Same here, signed, sealed, and delivered over two weeks ago! countryjake Nov 2012 #22
Absentee Ballot mailed a week and a half ago. Grammy23 Nov 2012 #17
I early voted last week. We have DIAL machines here at my precinct Tx4obama Nov 2012 #19
That's what my precinct had too, but I asked for a paper ballot. ScreamingMeemie Nov 2012 #20
Voted by mail on a fill-in-the-ovals paper ballot last week. Arugula Latte Nov 2012 #23
I voted absentee but what they have in my Ca district is "Ink a Vote" where Raine Nov 2012 #24
Didn't vote today, voted 11 days ago and pen in oval but... k8conant Nov 2012 #25
Danaher Controls ELECTronic 1242 Model 5M Direct Recording Electronic Voting Machine. woodsprite Nov 2012 #27
Wow, 21% touchscreen (as of now). Either there's a lot of blind DUers, or .... Scuba Nov 2012 #29
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