[Magdalen] Whither Scotland?

[Jay Weigel]

It's supposed to be an option everywhere, I think. I voted absentee the
last couple of times.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jay, I didn't know that was an option in VA, unless you're voting absentee.
>
> > On Sep 18, 2014, at 5:13 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have in recent times taken to requesting a paper ballot. I no longer
> > trust "voting machines".
> >
> >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Kate Conant <kate.conant at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> https://twitter.com/LSEpoliticsblog/status/512583690229411841/photo/1
> >>
> >> Times for reporting are shown on the map at the above Twitter link.
> >>
> >> Kate, not there to vote YES.
> >>
> >> "What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and
> walk
> >> humbly with your God?"
> >> Micah 6:8
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The official announcement is expected around breakfast-time or a
> >>> little later from the central election site near Edinburgh. I've
> >>> always admired U.K. elections for having official announcements. I
> >>> suppose we've got those, too, but we've all heard the outcomes ad
> >>> nauseam via news outlets' projections even before voting ends. In the
> >>> U.K, I gather every constituency has its announcement done publicly,
> >>> giving the final totals. Seems efficient and civilized. And if the
> >>> scheme for collecting vote-counts is efficient, the results can bubble
> >>> up to whatever level is needed rather swiftly, with paper to back up
> >>> the results in case of dispute or very close totals.
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> >>> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I see the polls close in Scotland at 10 PM which is, I think this
> time
> >>>> of the year, 4 PM EDT North America.
> >>>>
> >>>> An incredible 97% of eligible voters have registered to vote, and
> >>>> this now includes 16 and 17 year olds.
> >>>>
> >>>> There has been some news coverage of Scots voting, and in every
> >>>> case there were paper ballots being dropped into a box.
> >>>>
> >>>> While this style is still common in some parts of the USA, I've
> >>>> always voted via "voting machine".
> >>>>
> >>>> It's going to be a long night for the Scots, particularly if all
> votes
> >>>> are tabulated by hand.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> David Strang.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Scott R. Knitter
> >>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >>
>