Looks Like a Standard Cook County Election
Here's follow-up to the previous article about the election machines. The debacle in that election, for which the votes weren't fully counted until last Friday is primarily being blamed on "human error" although aldermen are calling for an investigation into the machines themselves. Regardless of if the machines would have performed properly with tech-savvy judges, however, the question remains, why do these machines have to be so high-tech?
In my precinct, the touch screen machine was not functioning so they gave everyone optical scan ballots. The ballots were huge and they gave us large sheets to cover them, but then the election judge took the sheet off to stick my ballot in the reader and the votes were visible to all. A friend of mine from Little Village said that when he voted on the touch screen machine, the thing did not give him a receipt. Of course that wouldn't be a problem if they had an actual person give you a receipt when you stick your punch card ballot in a cardboard box.
[Apr 05, 2006] | [politics] | # | G
