I wanted a paper trail, but I live in a fairly solidly dem area, so am not worried about my drop in the bucket going amiss. Rest of state benighted. Oh, well.
Personally I'm pretty sure that the Ohio election was stolen and that the New Life Church polling place (Gahanna 1B) had 4000 extra votes for Bush (in a place that had 600 odd registered voters) because the person who was adding votes screwed up and added 4000 rather than 400 or 40 as a typo. Not sure that anything's going to be done about it, even though technically the election isn't final for another 33 days.
No sign anywhere that anyone is looking at this AT ALL. It gets mentioned and then dropped like yesterday's weather report.
All I can say is that if I used an ATM and it didn't give me a printed receipt, I'd be checking my account daily AND calling the bank. When I went in to vote, I looked at the butterfly ballot (it's the only kind I've ever used and I've been voting for 2 decades,) I checked the number on the printed book-ballot to see what numbers were assigned to my choice for president and for senator, I then punched my ballot and pulled the punch card out of the machine to make sure the holes were actually were I wanted them to be.
If someone had told me 10 years ago that I'd be doing that to make sure that my vote *might* count, I'd have thought they were crazy. I'm relieved to live in a non-swing state.
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I seem to have enough of the geek temperment that I'm aesthetically offended by the lack of a paper trail.
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All I can say is that if I used an ATM and it didn't give me a printed receipt, I'd be checking my account daily AND calling the bank.
When I went in to vote, I looked at the butterfly ballot (it's the only kind I've ever used and I've been voting for 2 decades,) I checked the number on the printed book-ballot to see what numbers were assigned to my choice for president and for senator, I then punched my ballot and pulled the punch card out of the machine to make sure the holes were actually were I wanted them to be.
If someone had told me 10 years ago that I'd be doing that to make sure that my vote *might* count, I'd have thought they were crazy.
I'm relieved to live in a non-swing state.
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I put a longer follow-up elsewhere about various other tracking/activist sites, but I can't put my hands on it right now.
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