Complaint about pens
Alan Oestreich said he had two complaints after voting at the Unitarian Church, 320 Resor Ave.:
1. Pens don't work very well to block out the squares on the ballot. He has arthritis and finds it difficult to use the pens.
2. Names on the voting list were read loudly in front of everyone in the line.
Submitted by Betty Barnett
5 Comments:
at 8:02 AM, November 07, 2006 
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at 8:20 AM, November 07, 2006 
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at 9:28 AM, November 07, 2006 
Nasty, Brutish & Short said...
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at 10:22 AM, November 07, 2006 
JohnDWoodSr said...
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at 11:41 PM, November 07, 2006 
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Post a Comment*I arrived at my designated location today, The Salvation Army in College Hill, at 6:50 am only to discover that the scanning machine was not working. Everyone was being asked to fold these 2 large legal size ballots into small envelopes and stuff the envelopes into a side slot on the scanning machine. The box is already stuffed with these envelopes. How will they fit 12 more hours worth in there? How do we know our votes will be counted scanned and counted properly?
Voting machine in the Mason Municipal Building would not read the ballots. Makes you question, with all the advanced technology we have, why we can't vote online at home, or on computer touch screens in the state of Ohio. I felt the fill in the blank method to be a step backward from the punch card ballot.
The pens are ridiculous... too little ink, too big of a bubble to fill in.
Those pens suck! It shouldn't take ten minutes to complete a ballot.
Why can't a pencil be used, or a magic marker? The magic eraser programmed into the scanner would probably be more efficient, too.
I spent a long time simply filling in the boxes completely -- it's relatively difficult to do with a simple ball-point pen. It would have been much quicker with a Sharpie or magic marker.
It would also help if there were even thicker lines for the boxes, to make it easier to fill in the box completely while not marking outside the box.
More whitespace between races would also be very helpful; it was hard to tell where one race ended and the next began without looking closely, and I must have rechecked my ballot 4-5 times to make sure I really voted only once for each race and didn't miss any races.
Nevertheless, I was happy to see that Hamilton County is using optical scanners -- it's one of the most foolproof and auditable options for electronic voting.
By the way, the proper name of "the Unitarian church" is "St. John's Unitarian Church" -- why wasn't the correct name of the church used?
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