On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, joe wrote:
> FWIW in the last election, some precients here in Florida had
> more than a 97% turnout. My person opinion, if someone is too lazy to
> register and/or vote I don't want them voting anyway. In the last
> election, the democrats realized that they were in trouble here in
> Florida and they issued a last minute plea for more "mininories" to
> get out and vote at the last minute. That's what lead to a lot of the
> voter confusion and un-counted votes. Many of those last minute
> voters had never registered and most of them didn't even know that
> they had to go to a voting place IN THEIR OWN DISTRICT. They simply
> went to the first voting palce that they found and DEMANDED to vote.
> Of course, they were turned away and told that they had to vote in
> their own district but since they hadn't bothered to even find out
> were that was they ran out of time before they could vote.
Bringing this sort of on topic (barely) I recently found some voting
equipment in a local electronics surplus ship that made it's way all the
way from Dade County, Florida :) One was a punch for punching selections
on a ballot, and the other seemed to be some sort of electronic bar code
type device, or perhaps just a simple light-gun and photo-diode implement.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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