Comments on: I e-voted. http://dylan.tweney.com/2006/11/07/i-e-voted/ If you're bored, you're not paying attention Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:50:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Markhttp://dylan.tweney.com/2006/11/07/i-e-voted/comment-page-1/#comment-2660 Mark Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:51:27 +0000 http://dylan.tweney.com/2006/11/07/i-e-voted/#comment-2660 The e-Slates at my polling place weren't working yet when I went to vote early on Election Day morning. When I asked, they said it would be a long wait. One (for my precinct) had failed to boot up and the other (for another precinct that shares the same polling place) was missing some piece of equipment, so hadn't even been unpacked yet. Back to paper for me, but they had changed the optical scanners too and we had to fill in a rectangle rather than just connecting two lines, as before. Took longer filling in but perhaps that avoids more scanning errors. The e-Slates at my polling place weren’t working yet when I went to vote early on Election Day morning. When I asked, they said it would be a long wait. One (for my precinct) had failed to boot up and the other (for another precinct that shares the same polling place) was missing some piece of equipment, so hadn’t even been unpacked yet. Back to paper for me, but they had changed the optical scanners too and we had to fill in a rectangle rather than just connecting two lines, as before. Took longer filling in but perhaps that avoids more scanning errors.

]]> By: Ole' Dadhttp://dylan.tweney.com/2006/11/07/i-e-voted/comment-page-1/#comment-2645 Ole' Dad Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:50:49 +0000 http://dylan.tweney.com/2006/11/07/i-e-voted/#comment-2645 I voted yesterday on a Sequoia machine, here in Nevada.Nice, fairly inuitive, interface, a true touch screen. Lots of chances to review and change any votes, and, as with the one you used, I got to review the paper version (behind glass), and confirm that it was correct before it disappeared into the machine.Biggest problem (aside from the long line, caused by one of the three supplied machines going down) is that the tapes for our very small town are taken to another city at the end of voting, so there are no local results to be seen, even the day after. Not cool! I voted yesterday on a Sequoia machine, here in Nevada.

Nice, fairly inuitive, interface, a true touch screen. Lots of chances to review and change any votes, and, as with the one you used, I got to review the paper version (behind glass), and confirm that it was correct before it disappeared into the machine.

Biggest problem (aside from the long line, caused by one of the three supplied machines going down) is that the tapes for our very small town are taken to another city at the end of voting, so there are no local results to be seen, even the day after. Not cool!

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