Firday Night Voting Follies
With all the bad news about voting machines, its nice to have a laugh or two at their expense. So here’s two laughs:
An Arkansas official says tall voters complained about the touchscreen not recording their votes properly, so she took the machine out of service during the election. She complained to ES & S, the manufacturer, who CONFIRMED THE PROBLEM!!
In Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, voters used their new computers to make more write in votes than in the past. And they took the opportunity to diss the process:
“I’m disturbed by some of the swear words,” said Luzerne County Election Bureau Director Leonard Piazza.
“That’s disgusting. If that’s the kind of word you’re going to type into these machines, then you ought not to be bothering to vote because that’s an insult to the voting process,” Piazza said.
One wag has suggested that opponents of paperless voting machines should use the write-in feature to vote for “paper ballots” or “noproof notruth”.