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>

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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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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....

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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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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...

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