[Magdalen] speech

[Lynn Ronkainen]

We have plastic 'carrels' that you stand in front of. A lit panel/screen on "desk top" with a dial on left. 
After signing in I am given a small ticket with a code 
( presumably matched to my sign in sheet?). First I enter the code into the screen using the dial to select and approve each number of the code, then I enter the  finished code. Then using dial move through all possible positions and choose and enter each individually. At the end the whole slate is presented for a last approval. Rather arduous but always worth it! I too miss the curtained mechanical booths- memories, eh?
Lynn 

On Sep 8, 2018, at 3:28 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

Well, my first vote was in Michigan—the Johnson-Goldwater election—but then I moved, so I never voted there again.
But I do miss those old voting machines with the curtains and the big lever! There was something very satisfying about pulling the lever and hearing that loud “ka-ching” as the curtain opened and your vote was recorded!
And the results were recorded right there in the back of the machine.

> On Sep 8, 2018, at 4:08 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Apparently Michigan doesn't have this anymore, but when we were learning
> how to vote, with curtained machines, you could pull a party's large lever
> to vote a straight ticket, and all of that party's little levers would
> move. Then you had to pull the big red-handled lever to the other side to
> record your vote and open the curtain. Maybe they should bring these back!
> 
>> On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 2:48 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Roger, I’ve never heard of being able to vote for a whole slate with one
>> button, but maybe some states have that.
>> Thankfully, our big elections are staggered, i.e, we don’t vote for
>> governor in the same year as president; senate terms are six years, etc.
>> 
>>> On Sep 8, 2018, at 3:41 PM, Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 08/09/2018 15:43, Judy Fleener wrote:
>>>> makes me weep.  I had a talk with a son yesterday about politics, asking
>>>> him to vote a straight ticket, which you cannot do in Michigan.  He
>> peplied
>>>> by saying " I don't want to be a socialist."  Where did I go wrong?
>>> 
>>> My understanding of Democratic Party policies is that they are very far
>> from socialist in the European. let alone the Communist, sense. If they
>> were then you would have had Medicare for all by now, decent transport
>> infrastructure and a properly funded public education system. The
>> appropriate answer might have been "Do you think government should be for
>> the public good or enrich those who already have more than enough?"
>>> 
>>> I assume that being unable to vote a straight ticket in Michigan means
>> that you can't go the machine, select D or R, push the button and you have
>> voted for all the candidates who have the chose party affiliation. Given
>> how many positions you vote for in the USA I can see some sense in blocking
>> that simple exercise. It may be that you prefer the policies of one
>> candidate for, say, Governor but prefer the other party's policies for the
>> city council.
>>> 
>>> Roger, who is very thankful not to have to vote for so many offices at
>> the same time.
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA