Comments on: And I have the sticker to prove it http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/10/28/and-i-have-the-sticker-to-prove-it/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:14:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Billll http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/10/28/and-i-have-the-sticker-to-prove-it/comment-page-1/#comment-209265 Billll Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:31:33 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=19393#comment-209265 It should be a high turnout this year as there's already at least one "I Voted" sticker on every park bench and headstone in town. It should be a high turnout this year as there’s already at least one “I Voted” sticker on every park bench and headstone in town.

]]> By: R. Neal http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/10/28/and-i-have-the-sticker-to-prove-it/comment-page-1/#comment-209240 R. Neal Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:50:40 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=19393#comment-209240 You're in luck on the paper voting. A new state law requires that voter verifiable paper ballots and optical scan machines be in place statewide in time for th 2010 elections. There's leftover HAVA funding in place to pay for it. You’re in luck on the paper voting. A new state law requires that voter verifiable paper ballots and optical scan machines be in place statewide in time for th 2010 elections. There’s leftover HAVA funding in place to pay for it.

]]> By: JKB http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/10/28/and-i-have-the-sticker-to-prove-it/comment-page-1/#comment-209235 JKB Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:20:54 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=19393#comment-209235 Just so happens I was looking at some of the TN stats last night. Knox and Hamilton counties are at about 24% of registered voters having voted early or by absentee. I looked at some past elections and in the past 10 years early voting has grown substantially although overall turnout seems level. So I don't think we can tell if turnout will be heavy from early voting. From a news story in Chattanooga paper urging early voting: "By the close of voting Saturday, more than 41,000 people had cast their ballots early in Hamilton County, said Charlotte Mullis-Morgan, deputy superintendent of elections. In the 2004 presidential election, a total of 41,780 voters cast ballots during the 15-day early voting period in Hamilton County, election officials have said." Here is the site for TN election info http://www.state.tn.us/sos/election/index.htm Just so happens I was looking at some of the TN stats last night. Knox and Hamilton counties are at about 24% of registered voters having voted early or by absentee. I looked at some past elections and in the past 10 years early voting has grown substantially although overall turnout seems level. So I don’t think we can tell if turnout will be heavy from early voting.

From a news story in Chattanooga paper urging early voting:

“By the close of voting Saturday, more than 41,000 people had cast their ballots early in Hamilton County, said Charlotte Mullis-Morgan, deputy superintendent of elections. In the 2004 presidential election, a total of 41,780 voters cast ballots during the 15-day early voting period in Hamilton County, election officials have said.”

Here is the site for TN election info
http://www.state.tn.us/sos/election/index.htm

]]> By: Paul Simer http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/10/28/and-i-have-the-sticker-to-prove-it/comment-page-1/#comment-209229 Paul Simer Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:36:03 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=19393#comment-209229 I graduated in January 2007 with a degree in Computer Science, and I was stumped for about 30 seconds when using our rotary-controlled computer voting machines yesterday. They apparently wanted some sort of information screen before the voting, but didn't have that function, so they just made it the first "vote" screen, with the information they wanted to convey as the first selection, and "Click here to continue" as the second on. You had to "vote" for "Click here to continue" in order to get to the first real voting page. If I can't get it immediately, why on earth should I expect that the 80 year-old great-grandmother coming in right after me on her walker will be able to see what they did and adapt to it? I graduated in January 2007 with a degree in Computer Science, and I was stumped for about 30 seconds when using our rotary-controlled computer voting machines yesterday.

They apparently wanted some sort of information screen before the voting, but didn’t have that function, so they just made it the first “vote” screen, with the information they wanted to convey as the first selection, and “Click here to continue” as the second on. You had to “vote” for “Click here to continue” in order to get to the first real voting page.

If I can’t get it immediately, why on earth should I expect that the 80 year-old great-grandmother coming in right after me on her walker will be able to see what they did and adapt to it?

]]> By: retro http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/10/28/and-i-have-the-sticker-to-prove-it/comment-page-1/#comment-209224 retro Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:18:26 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=19393#comment-209224 I forget exactly, but maybe 8 or 10 years or so ago Oregon switched over to a 100% Vote-By-Mail system for all elections. After voting this way for so many years now, I really don't understand why all states don't go this route. You get to vote in the privacy of your own home and on your own time. It's really very convenient. The one thing that 'bothers' me (but not really...) is that because of the size and weight of the ballot envelope, it is marked "extra postage required" however they don't tell you how much extra... Since I live about 3 blocks from the County Clerk's Office I just hand carried it and saved the postage. I forget exactly, but maybe 8 or 10 years or so ago Oregon switched over to a 100% Vote-By-Mail system for all elections.

After voting this way for so many years now, I really don’t understand why all states don’t go this route. You get to vote in the privacy of your own home and on your own time. It’s really very convenient.

The one thing that ‘bothers’ me (but not really…) is that because of the size and weight of the ballot envelope, it is marked “extra postage required” however they don’t tell you how much extra…

Since I live about 3 blocks from the County Clerk’s Office I just hand carried it and saved the postage.

]]>