6 May
2001
6 May
'01
11:04 a.m.
Palm Beach to Auction Voting Machines
Palm Beach County is selling the voting machines at the center of last
year's chad debate to help pay for more modern voting equipment.
Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore says because the Florida
Legislature has voted to ban punch card ballots, the county will soon
begin selling some or all of its 5,000 Votomatic machines on eBay, the
online auction house.
Proceeds from the sale will help the county buy voting equipment
expected to cost between US$3 million and US$14 million. The state will
give the county US$1.9 million.
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7 May
7 May
4:24 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival skrev:
Palm Beach to Auction Voting Machines
Palm Beach County is selling the voting machines at
the center of last
year's chad debate to help pay for more modern voting equipment.
I thought the whole problem stemmed from the usage of "modern" equipment. A
booth and a pencil is all you really need to vote.
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- Animanga.nu
4:44 a.m.
At 02:24 PM 5/7/01 +0100, you wrote:
Vintage Computer Festival skrev:
Ha! You're assuming that they can read and write in English. MANY of
them can't. A lot of them can't read or write ANY in any language. As far
as I'm concerned, if they can't figure out how to use a voting machine then
they have no business voting and their vote shouldn't count anyway.
Frustrated Florida taxpayer that will have to help pay for all those
new voting machines,
Joe
Palm Beach to Auction Voting Machines
Palm Beach County is selling the voting
machines at the center of last
year's chad debate to help pay for more modern voting equipment.
I thought the whole problem stemmed from the usage of "modern" equipment. A
booth and a pencil is all you really need to vote. --
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
Kimagure Orange Road inneh?ller v?ldigt mycket ton?rsromantik, extremt mycket
ton?rsromantik faktiskt. Men det ?r samtidigt en av de st?rsta klassikerna
inom shojo, kanske till och med den absolut st?rsta.
- Animanga.nu
2:07 p.m.
joe skrev:
At 02:24 PM 5/7/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Vintage Computer Festival skrev:
>
> >Palm Beach to Auction Voting Machines
>
> > Palm Beach County is selling the voting machines at the center of last
> >year's chad debate to help pay for more modern voting equipment.
>
>I thought the whole problem stemmed from the usage of "modern" equipment. A
>booth and a pencil is all you really need to vote.
Ha! You're assuming that they can read and
write in English. MANY of
them can't. A lot of them can't read or write ANY in any language. As far
as I'm concerned, if they can't figure out how to use a voting machine then
they have no business voting and their vote shouldn't count anyway.
I thought alfabetisation was a cornerstone of democracy... Or perhaps that was
communism. I can't remember.
Frustrated Florida taxpayer that will have to
help pay for all those
new voting machines,
Probably new-fangled Windows PCs with mice, which will be so much easier to
use.
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Architektur ist NetBSD etwa 30% schneller. Wer auf so einer Maschine
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