• Re: Voting (was: Re: Trav

    From Nancy Backus@1:123/140 to Joe Mackey on Sun Mar 31 21:16:00 2019
    Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 03-27-19 07:10 <=-

    We aren't that early at rising... so I don't think we've ever been first
    or second... ;) But we always do show up... :)

    When I was working I got in the habit of voting on the way to work.
    It was only a block out of my way. They opened at like 6.30 and I was there around 7. When my hours changed to starting at 7 I was there at 6.30 since I could vote and still be at work on time.

    That made sense... :)

    Once upon a time, before the Florida fiasco in 2000, we used punch
    cards. I really liked those since I would take a list of the numbers
    of the person I was voting for, and "punch 'em out" in a few seconds.

    We never had that here.... the old voting machines had little levers you
    pushed down, and when you opened the curtain, they'd all tally, and
    reset for the next person... Now, with the computerized ones, we have
    to mark the paper ballots with a felt-tip pen, filling in circles... and
    then submit it to the machine... I like the old system better,
    actually... ;)

    One time in the '80s the owner of a restaurant we dealt with was
    running for some local office. He asked if I had voted yet. I asked
    what number was he and he said whatever number. I pulled out the slip
    of paper and said "Oh yes, here you are" and showed him.
    He asked what that was about and I said "the old man (the retired
    founder and father of my boss) believed in a secret ballot and came
    around each election day with the numbers we were to vote for. That
    if we didn't know whom we were voting for it was a secret". He
    believed me! LOL

    Either he didn't know you were a joker...... or it sounded just like
    what his old man would have done and said.... <G>

    ttyl neb

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Nancy Backus on Mon Apr 1 12:24:00 2019
    Nancy,

    We never had that here.... the old voting machines had little levers you NB>pushed down, and when you opened the curtain, they'd all tally, and
    reset for the next person... Now, with the computerized ones, we have
    to mark the paper ballots with a felt-tip pen, filling in circles... and NB>then submit it to the machine... I like the old system better, NB>actually... ;)

    I do, too.

    Marking those ballots and bubbling in things reminded me too much of
    those PITA ACT and SAT tests in school.

    Daryl

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  • From Nancy Backus@1:123/140 to Daryl Stout on Wed Apr 3 15:56:00 2019
    Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 04-01-19 12:24 <=-

    We never had that here.... the old voting machines had little levers
    you pushed down, and when you opened the curtain, they'd all tally,
    and reset for the next person... Now, with the computerized ones,
    we have to mark the paper ballots with a felt-tip pen, filling in
    circles... and then submit it to the machine... I like the old system
    better, actually... ;)

    I do, too.
    Marking those ballots and bubbling in things reminded me too much of
    those PITA ACT and SAT tests in school.

    Or any other standardized test.... yup, very similar, except the circles
    are bigger for the voting....

    ttyl neb

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Nancy Backus on Sat Apr 6 12:00:00 2019
    Nancy,

    Or any other standardized test.... yup, very similar, except the circles NB>are bigger for the voting....

    On the ham radio license exam answer sheets, the examinees are
    instructed to make a solid circle over the desired answer (A, B, C, or
    D). We lay a grading template with holes in it, over the sheet, and we
    grade it that way. Some have just circled the answers, but didn't fill
    them in...and it looked like they didn't do anything at all...which
    would be an instant failure of the exam.

    Daryl
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  • From Nancy Backus@1:123/140 to Daryl Stout on Tue Apr 9 17:39:00 2019
    Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 04-06-19 12:00 <=-

    Or any other standardized test.... yup, very similar, except the
    circles are bigger for the voting....

    On the ham radio license exam answer sheets, the examinees are
    instructed to make a solid circle over the desired answer (A, B, C, or
    D). We lay a grading template with holes in it, over the sheet, and we grade it that way. Some have just circled the answers, but didn't fill them in...and it looked like they didn't do anything at all...which
    would be an instant failure of the exam.

    Dunno... it isn't totally intuitive that "solid circle = circle and fill
    in", so one would hope that there's a little explanation given at the
    start of the exam.... I can see how just the open circle could be
    hidden by the grading template, or be larger than the templates holes...

    ttyl neb

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