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 [log in to unmask] Dummerston, VT -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>