Ours is the old lever system where if you want to write in a name, you have
this teeny tiny space behind one lever - never did understand how it would
record your vote, but it's probably a teeny tiny paper roll on a spindle.
With the exception that the company that built these machines is (I believe)
out of business, the things were always very easy to understand for whom
you'd just cast your vote.  Sometimes progress is not really progress.
Heard a story from a Phelpsian who went to work in Ohio on Election
Protection where "supposedly, a top exec at Diebold basically guaranteed
Bush a win many months ago in corporate meetings."  Could be an urban
legend, but the stories of his experience at the polling place where he
works weren't.  Sounded like there were absolute shenanigans going on.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Barton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 01:45
Subject: Re: [BP] Pax Roma


> Michael,  That's the way we vote here too, the old fashioned way, with
> paper and pencil.
>
> However, I do wish we could get cotton sacks anymore.  Do they have
writing
> on them or patterns like we had when I was a kid.  My Gram made me dresses
> out of the flowered grain sacks and I still have a few with the name of a
> company printed on them.  Still use them to strain juice for jelly.  Ruth
>
>
>
>
> At 9:53 PM -0500 11/7/04, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Well chums its good to know that in this age of Computers and high speed
> tech some things down (down hair)   never change
>
> My voting booth  was a sundry collection of  2x4's and cotton sack
> muslin used  as a privacy curtain  (purchased  from the local  feed and
> seed)
>
> It afforded me the most fail safe technology known to man .....(.Paper and
> pencil)
> With the  boxes empty  next to your favorite candidate you only needed to
> put an X  next to the name
> --
> Ruth Barton
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> Dummerston, VT
>
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