I had my first encounter with a touch-screen voting booth today. I found it a vast improvement over Henrico County’s previous, mechanical voting technology. The instructions were clear — no room for confusion whatsoever. There was a brief delay as I stood in line while poll watchers made an hourly check on the machines — some kind of fraud prevention procedure. What an improvement!
Reach Out and Touch (Screen) Someone
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4 responses to “Reach Out and Touch (Screen) Someone”
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Well I hope you voted for Webb!
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we had touch screens in Spotsy for the first time. The problem was that they replaced 12 or so fill-in-the-bubble ballot stations with 5 touch screen stations. Add in the delay from poll workers helping (mostly senior citizens) folks with the touch screens and things went rather slow. I wrote up the experience in detail at my blog.
I didn’t have any problem with the touch screens, but people that are ‘afraid” of computers tend to react oddly and slowly to them.
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Ditto where I vote in Spotsy.
If we have a heavy turnout… there are going to be long lines as people who are not
familiar with technology are going to flummoxed. -
In Delaplane they ran out of paper ballots on account of high turnout.
I’d prefer a paper ballot with an audit trail, and I make my living off of high tech.
Still, the touch screen was COOL, and it seemed to work OK.
But, since I’m a high tech guy, I still worry. I can see the problems that could develop.
Newspeak, anyone?
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