[Magdalen] speech

[Michael Bishop]

What complicated ways! We Brits are happy to simply collect a voting 
slip from the poll clerk and then go into the polling booth and mark an 
X in pencil by our chosen candidate's name, then fold it and go back to 
the clerk and place the slip in the ballot box. At tghe end of the 
voting, the boxes are brought together and the votes counted by hand. No 
machines to go wrong! Why reinvent the wheel?

God bless

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Michael Bishop
rev at michaelbishop.name

On 08/09/2018 22:06, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> 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