What's your method of voting?

[UrbScotty]

In my precinct, we use ballots that go in the scanner (optical scan?). We mark our choice by connecting arrows, like this:

George W. Bush -------> <-------
Al Gore ------->--------<-------
Ralph Nader -------> <-------
Pat Buchanan -------> <-------

How do you vote?

[leftyandproud]

1. bubble thingies...

like those tests we did in high school...use a pencil to bubble in the selection, then slide it into the scanning machine...I believe these are optical as well...supposedly the most accurate system out there.

[childslibrarian]

2. We do punch cards

here in Chester county PA

[MercutioATC]

Cleveland, Ohio suburbs have punch cards

.

[lastliberalintexas]

9. Yes, scantron type ballots

You fill in the circle next to your candidate's name, with a #2 pencil. Very accurate, very cheap, and very easy to read/decipher. There are some advantages to living in a poor rural county- we actually have paper ballots.

[Atlant]

36. Bubble thingies into the optical scanner.

Computer-fast results WITH a full paper trail.

And I always write-in somebody, so if I had to, I could spot
my own ballot ex post facto.

Atlant

[Malva Zebrina]

3. pencil and paper

the ballot marked with an "x"

[WilliamPitt]

4. ABBA

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Connect the arrows with a Sharpie, although in 2000 it was a

punch card ballot.

[Hep]

6. Same

n/t

[murphymom]

7. Vote by mail in Oregon

via punch card. Sit down at the kitchen table with my voter booklet and info that I've collected so I can look up the less publicized local office candidates (different local boards, etc.), punch my card, check for hanging chads, pop it in the envelope, sign it and into the mail it goes.

Love vote by mail, feel like I can be a much more conscientious voter.

[Pastiche423]

12. Vote by mail in Oregon too

but use the connecting arrow paper ballot that is optically scanned.

I LOVE being able to take the time, in the comfort of my home to vote.

[davidinalameda]

14. same here

and I vote absentee

[kimchi]

8. For the first time, Arlington Co has black boxes.

I'm waiting for my baby to wake up, then hubbie and I will vote.

Luckily, any tampering should be evident, since the county always goes democratic. Every member on the board of supervisors is democratic.

[nostamj]

10. antiques!

go behind the curtain, pull the big lever, click little levers down, pull the lever back.

paper????????????????????????

hell no!

on edit: i'm in carroll gardens/cobble hill brooklyn

[ElsewheresDaughter]

17. "antiques!" here too...go behind the curtian pull the lever curtian closes

and then switch all the little levers to vote

[newyawker99]

23. Same here in Brooklyn.

Go behind the curtain and turn the knobs next your candidate.

[HootieMcBoob]

33. I'm in Greenpoint Brooklyn

We use those ancient machines too. I'll miss the sound that the big lever makes if they ever do get around to switching things.

[bleedingheart]

35. Antiques as well - Pull the Democratic Lever and

pull back the curtain!

[flamingyouth]

11. Absentee, personally

But we use optical scan, fill in the dots SAT-style, here in Seattle.

[kyrasdad]

13. Wizard of Oz method

Big gray metal thing, throw the lever, curtain closes, notice the lack of Democratic candidates, shake head forlornly, flip the little levers down, throw the lever back, rememerge from behind the curtain.

[OKNancy]

15. Tulsa Oklahoma

same method - optical scan

[transeo]

16. Absentee

I don't own a car and it just takes too long to get to a polling place during my lunch hour on the bus.

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. Punch Cards

in Illinois

[ComerPerro]

19. Dice

I take two six-sided dice into the voting booth. If I get an odd number, I vote Democratic. If I get an even number, I roll again. If I get a 13, I vote green.

One time I dropped both of my dice, and I couldn't see exactly to where they disappeared. So, desperately I peaked out of the voting booth and yelled "Quick, someobody give me a number between 1 and 12!" To my disappointment, someone shouted, "two". So, I sighed and yelled, "OK, now someone else!" To that, someone shouted "seven", so I thanked everyone for their help and voted Democratic.

[burr]

27. What happens if Green is missing somewhere on the ballet?

Do yA roll again? :shrug:

[ComerPerro]

31. You know, its never come up

Considering I have never managed to get a 13 with two six sided dice.

But, I assume I would just write in.

[goobergunch]

20. Punch cards

My mom brought home the reciept thingy.

[Gin]

21. Punch cards...at least for a while...I check for hanging chads!

:)

[West Coast Democrat]

22. Oregon is a Vote By Mail state

I don't think there are any polling places here.

Also, in my county we fill in the little circle, but I believe it varies by county.

[leftchick]

24. GSO,NC...Touchscreen.....

POOF! Watch your vote disappear before your very eyes! :(

[Donna Zen]

25. Faster-cheaper-more accurate

pencil + paper + handcount

I've worked the polls, and I'm here to tell you it's fast and easy.

Every vote is counted with no screw ups.

[Lady President]

26. Touch-screens

Columbus, Ohio uses touch-screens, so who knows if I even really voted. For all I know I may have nothing to show for my effort other than the "I voted" sticker.

:shrug:

[Malva Zebrina]

28. Umm

we have the printed ballot--we go into a curtained off private stall--we take the pencil which has been there for all the voters so far, and we read the ballot and in the little box on the printed ballot, we mark either yes or no with the little pencil. Then we open the curtain , take our ballot in hand over to the place where a person is sitting in front of a large wooden box and drop the completed ballot into a slot in that box. What happens after that? --I suspect someone opens that box after the polls close at 8pm, and, with others, take a tally of all the votes and then reports it to a central command.

[CWebster]

29. Voting machine w\lever

controlled curtain.

[ithacan]

32. lever machine here too, in NY

and I really like it.
It really pisses me off that we're being forced to abandon these, waste millions and millions of dollars that will go into the pockets of right wing corporations to buy computerized machines that will undermine voting. :grr:

[Padraig18]

30. Optical scan, starting in March.

We have used punch cards since before I moved here, maybe since before I was born.

[GreenArrow]

34. Scantron

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