What system will you be using to cast your ballot in November?

[lebkuchen]

Poll question: What system will you be using to cast your ballot in November?

[jono]

1. Other: Optical Scan

although I'm still considering absentee.

[DemWitch]

2. in NY we have the old curtain/lever machines

[Feanorcurufinwe]

3. Other - optically scanned paper ballot

[ima_sinnic]

4. same as #1: optical scan, but considering absentee

(Florida)

[ithacan]

5. other: lever machine

in NY State. I actually really like the machines and would much prefer to keep them than to shift to computer systems, even with paper trail.

[CO Liberal]

6. Other

In Pueblo County, we use optical scanners. There is a broken arrow ( --- --> ) next to each candidates's name and the "YES" and "NO" on each ballot issue. You use a #2 pencil to complete the arrow next to your choice, and the entire ballot gets scanned and saved in case of a recount.

[Catch22Dem]

7. Exactly what we have in Oklahoma

Ours spits out a recipt, but no one ever takes theirs.

[movonne]

8. You forgot "vote by mail" that what we have here in Oregon.

[lebkuchen]

11. How does that differ from absentee ballot?

That's the only system I've ever been able to use for the past 15 years, so I'm out of the loop as to what all America uses and how the systems differ.

An absentee ballot comes in the mail and is returned by mail, or faxed.

[pacalo]

9. Old fashioned lever machines in La, thank goodness.

[Kurt Remarque]

10. unless i missed something...

i be doing punch-card again (suburban county of philly) . i have learned to inspect the card after voting and flick off any hanging chads though

[ThomWV]

12. We Still Use Paper and Pencil

Really, here in Preston County, West Virginia. They hand me the paper ballot, I take it into a booth where there are some pencils. When I'm done I fold it in half and take it to a box guarded by two very serious women where I drop it through the slot. Sounds sort of archaic, doesn't it? Well, guess what, I'd say that we may be the envy of most of the rest of the country.

Thom

[flordehinojos]

13. absentee ballot, but with trepidation,

a sort of darn if you do and darn if you don't -- don't know which might be easier for the republicans to steal -- the absentee ballot (by claiming who knows what: that it wasn't posted on time, that it wasn't signed, that it was lost ... who knows!!!) or the electronic vote which they can just steal without a trace!

The bush residency has been so damaging to this country! Bush has now become ADDICTED TO POWER as stated by Paul Levy in his article entitled "Bush's Psychological Profile" ....

Levy states, "What is scary is Bush's WILLINGNESS TO DO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING TO HOLD ON TO POWER". He continues to state, "AS Jung points out when someone prefers power...from the psychological point of view, they could be rightfully said to be possessed by the Devil ..."

"Bush" he says, "...lies to himself and others and believes his own lies ... This process, combined with his complete unwillingness to self-reflect, is the very dynamic which allows the deepest evil to enact itself through him ..."

I think we, and our democracy, are really in much more of a fix than we might all realize right now and I do believe that whatever evil doings are playing out through Junior they have their root in POPPY who is either holding the strings or driving the agenda behind the scene and vicariously enjoying the Bush's hold on power.

I think the second Reichstag coming is a very real possibility being waged upon us already through Condolizzard's and others' warnings this weekend THE TERRORISTS ARE COMING, THE TERRORISTS ARE COMING, THE TERRORISTS ARE COMING.

Incredible that in three years the terrorist threats have never been so specific, never so sold to the public as they are now just a few short months before the election.

Bush is that fearful Y2K we were expecting at the turn of the century.
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