After-voting summary

Okay, hello everybody, again. It is currently 6:00p.m. on October 27th, 2008. I just finished voting, early voting, at the Moody Park voting station, I think voting station number 2 for early voting in Harris County. It's just north of downtown Houston, TX. And everything went great. When I got in, there was about seven or eight people standing in line. There were two sign-in stations where you could give the person your voter registration card, and they would print you out a number that you had sign in on the eSlate electronic voting ballot machine. It is made by Hart Industries[should be Intercivic], and that's what they give you a little piece of paper, to take to the voting machines. There were, I think, 18 or 20 voting machines. About half were used, so I think the bottleneck was the sign-in station, but there wasn't that big of a line. It took me about 30 minutes to get in and get out. So, that's a pretty good time for early voting. I ask one of the ladies managing the line there how busy they had been. They said that they had been pretty much busy all week. There hadn't been any really slow times, but the line was still very manageable. So, everything went great. I didn't have any vote switching or anything like that as some West Virginia people are reporting, so I didn't any problems like that. I checked all of my ballot at the end to make sure nothing got switched, and everything was great. It was a really long ballot, because there were so many judicial district decisions, but that just fine. You know, I'm all in favor of voting as much as I can, so I'm really please with my experience. And, let's see how this one turns out, if there's any more problems later in the week. Alright, bye.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• eslate
• lines
• personal_experience
• videothevote
• voting_machines

[mstaff657]

thirty minutes is unacceptable 

[VFoVendetta]

Haha yeah if you wanna be a smart ass then use proper grammar fist fuck.

[diafygi]

sigh, /facepalm. I am very aware of the trust we are putting in electronic voting machines, but that wasn't the point of this summary. The broader issue of paper trails and election verification does not have to be brought into every voting report.

I am going to put a summary of my efforts to get accountability questions answered on my user videos. (Also, "An very bliss ignorant voter"? Perhaps you mean: a very blissfully ignorant voter)

[WeBeGood06]

An very bliss ignorant voter who has absolutely no idea if his vote was counted correctly, totally unverifiable and re-uncountable. Trusting that there is absolutely no-one in a position of power who might want to insert a one liner, malicious piece of code that added the votes wrong. Nobody would have any interest in that, would they?

In some ways, stuffing the ballot box is so much easier with computers. All it takes is one good computer programmer with access to stuff them all.

[hannityforpres]

Then stay the hell out of the way of those of us who do pay taxes.

[Dotveoh]

i really don't care about Taxes!!

[diafygi]

I just wanted to clarify what I said about the eSlate. It is not a touchscreen machine. It uses a rotating button at the bottom to select votes, so there is no calibration issue. However, the eSlate does not have a paper record that the voter can verify. When you push "Cast Ballot," you just have to trust that your vote was recorded in the memory chip.