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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Hurry up and wait

Dave Marcus of Madeira says he spent 20 minutes waiting to vote at the Madeira public library. He said that even though there were only 5 or 6 people in front of him, voters were spending nearly 10 minutes in the voting booths. He blamed the delay on the balloting process, which requires voters to completely fill in a box for each selection using only a ballpoint pen.

Submitted by Gregory Koehler


5 Comments:

at 10:59 AM, November 07, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't doubt it...I was prepared too my own completed ballot from BOE web site, so all I had to do was fll in the damn squares with the 10 cnet pen they give you to do it. Took me eight minutes--maybe I was a little to worried about being perfect with the markings, but, why take the cahnce of having to do it all over again.

Magic markers probably bleed through, but there has to be a better way to fill out those boxes...

 
at 11:16 AM, November 07, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'll bet you didn't like fill in tests at school either. Get over it!

 
at 12:07 PM, November 07, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

I voted at a Kenwood apartment complex. With four people in front of me, I waited maybe five minutes. It took awhile to color in all the squares, so I skipped all of the situations in which people were running unopposed, as well as candidates I knew absolutely nothing about.

 
at 12:54 PM, November 07, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

amberley had a similar wait but theres a lot of choices. i prepped ahead of time and knew exactly what i was going to do. i thought it interesting that they wouldn't hand you the ballot till one of the privacy booths was available.

does anyone know if the ballots are destroyed by the scanning process or are they available to be rescanned when the results don't agree with the exit polling?

 
at 1:29 PM, November 07, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry to annoy you, "Alice," but the Parkinson's creates some problems......

 
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