[Magdalen] speech

[Grace Cangialosi]

Good Lord! I hate to say it, but in a area without a really high level of education and sophistication, I think this would deter folks from voting!

> On Sep 8, 2018, at 5:06 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> 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