On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, joe wrote:
FWIW in the last election, some precients here
in Florida had
more than a 97% turnout. My person opinion, if someone is too lazy to
register and/or vote I don't want them voting anyway. In the last
election, the democrats realized that they were in trouble here in
Florida and they issued a last minute plea for more "mininories" to
get out and vote at the last minute. That's what lead to a lot of the
voter confusion and un-counted votes. Many of those last minute
voters had never registered and most of them didn't even know that
they had to go to a voting place IN THEIR OWN DISTRICT. They simply
went to the first voting palce that they found and DEMANDED to vote.
Of course, they were turned away and told that they had to vote in
their own district but since they hadn't bothered to even find out
were that was they ran out of time before they could vote.
Bringing this sort of on topic (barely) I recently found some voting
equipment in a local electronics surplus ship that made it's way all the
way from Dade County, Florida :) One was a punch for punching selections
on a ballot, and the other seemed to be some sort of electronic bar code
type device, or perhaps just a simple light-gun and photo-diode implement.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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