How did you vote?

[Maine-ah]

Just curious as to how people voted....

[acmavm]

1. Not an 'x'. Fill in the oval.

[Maine-ah]

3. eh, pretty much the same idea

I went absentee this year, so I voted over a week ago. But normally around here, it's a short wait at the fire station, and an x-marks the spot ballot.

[Phredicles]

4. Same here. I guess standardized testing does impart some actual

life skills.

[acmavm]

24. Yep. For voting and Powerball

[Art_from_Ark]

60. Fill-in-the-oval here, too

using a tiny pencil on my absentee ballot.

[benny05]

65. Plus scanning later

The Dem who is running for County Clerk assures me the scan machines will work well as they did in the primary where I live. I live in a purple county.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Combo....Paper Ballot with Optical Scan

Better than touchscreen.... :shrug:

[mindfulNJ]

5. old fashioned levers

It was great.:)

[photogirl12]

9. Me too!!

Gotta love them levers!!!:bounce:

[fryguy]

30. same here....

...still brings back memories of going into the booth with my mom when I was a kid and pulling the big red lever to the vote position....

[Left Is Write]

62. I've never voted with levers. I've always wanted to.

[Liberal Veteran]

6. 33 out of 39 counties in my state vote by mail.

And those that don't are pretty solidly democratic.

[Maine-ah]

11. wow, that's kind of odd

cool though.

[Liberal Veteran]

25. Yah....I like it. I voted two weeks ago.

Washington State and Oregon both have vote by mail, although Oregon is completely vote by mail. And since then, voter participation has increased and it's cheaper.

On edit: Plus it has the bonus of no touch screens and there is a real paper trail.

[Lerkfish]

7. unfortunately diebold

[LSdemocrat]

8. I actually had a choice between optical scan and touch screen

Of course I used optical scan, but I was amazed at how many people asked to use the computer

[Ravenseye]

10. Electronic Voting - Now With Wings!

No privacy. No receipt. No paper trail.

[Liberal Dose]

17. I KNOW!

I couldn't believe that the people who walked behind me could see how I was voting. Give me a curtain and some levers to pull!!!

[Ravenseye]

26. They actually asked my wife and I if we wanted to vote together

Ie at the same machine, one after the other, together. I thought it was illegal, but guess not. Now all those husbands and wives with a bitchy/controlling spouse might not vote their consience.

[negativenihil]

12. paper! n/t

[chelsea0011]

13. Paper and optical

One thing I like about this type is that if you make an odd mark on the ballot, it gets rejected and you vote again. It is a silly ballot though where you have to complete the arrow by filling in the space in ink.

[Maine-ah]

19. aren't those the type that confused everyone in Florida?

[chelsea0011]

53. I don't know the answer to that

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

14. Absentee

Two words: Paper trail.

I would say I was able to analyze the ballot and look up all of the candidates on the internet, but that'd be a lie because I was always going to vote for every Democrat on the ballot anyway. :D

[Mr_Spock]

15. Optical paper

Not sure which category that is?

[swag]

16. We vote by mail in Oregon.

If you can't mail your ballot in time, there are drop-off boxes everywhere.

[chefgirl]

18. Paper Ballot

Prior to the 2004 general election, Maine was one of two states to outlaw electronic voting machines, and Im proud to say so!

-chef-

[Maine-ah]

22. gotta love Maine

:loveya:

[jpak]

29. DIRIGO!!!!

and democracy the way is should be.

TABOR will destroy all that if it passes though...

:(

[Maine-ah]

32. not gonna pass

[chefgirl]

33. I don't think it will

I've been seeing quite a few ads explaining what happened in Colorado when they enacted TABOR, and I'm hoping Mainers are a little more savvy than that. Keeping my fingers crossed.

-chef-

[Maine-ah]

38. I liked the ad showing the gov of colorado

saying how we should vote for tabor, and then they show him saying how it ruined colorado. that ad alone should have done the trick.

[chefgirl]

43. Oops...self delete

Duh Me.

-chef-

[chefgirl]

45. That WAS a good one

I wasnt too impressed with the way it was worded on the ballot, though.

If I hadn't realized that it was the TABOR question, I might have thought it sounded kind of reasonable.. until I really read it closely, that is.

That's really my only fear about it..that people might not realize what they're voting for.

Still, I dont think its going to pass.

-chef-

[Maine-ah]

47. eh, good point

I had to read it a couple of times before I said "oh, you dumbass" LOL, I can see how it could confuse people.

[chefgirl]

48. Well, that makes me feel better.

LOL.

You're not the only one who called yourself a dumbass. :silly:

-chef-

[WritingIsMyReligion]

52. YEEHAW for Maine!

Gotta love our state!

:hi:

[chefgirl]

59. I do love our state

I DO, I DO, I DO love our state!!

-chef-

[Avalux]

Electronic ESS machine - no paper, no booth. n/t

[BulletproofLandshark]

20. We had the option of paper or electronic

Sadly, some people opted to use the electronic ballot just because the line was shorter. There was only about 30 people there this morning!

[in_cog_ni_to]

21. Optical Scanning n/t

[flamin lib]

23. Optical scanner. The paper ballot is marked in pencil and counted

electronically. Last cycle there was a problem with the scanner not recording straght ticket (for either party) and a few thousand ballots had to hand counted.

[Mist]

36. That's what we have here. nt

[gaspee]

27. complete the line

Does anyone else have those? Then into the scanning machine.

[DaveJ]

35. We had arrows too...

...here in Chicago. There was no curtain for privacy either.

[lonestarnot]

28. but counted by ES & S scanner.

:cry:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

31. Absentee. Paper instead of punch for the first time.

I've been voting absentee since moving to WA in 1993. They were always punch. Now they are paper.

[Desertrose]

34. By mail- fill in the oval.

Lots of propositions that had to be studied this time. Really like the ballot by mail. Hope more in AZ do it this way- there was a prop for mail-in ballot only this time......gonna be interesting to see how many are turned away because of the ID thingy.

[ljm2002]

37. And here I thought you were asking...

...who we voted for!

For the record: straight Democratic, along with "yes" on the pro-marijuana initiative here in Nevada.

Looking forward to watching the returns tonight. Here's hoping we kick some serious *ss.

[Maine-ah]

40. I couldn't figure how to include that in the poll

maybe someone else could post it though, it would be rather interesting to see.

[deadparrot]

39. Paper.

There were two separate halves of an arrow (<- and --) next to each candidate. You used a pen to connect the two sides of the arrow that was next to your candidate.

I was relieved, actually--thought I'd have to use a machine. One benefit of living in an impoverished rural area, I suppose. :)

[Roxy66]

41. vote by mail.....Oregon

[slackmaster]

42. In about an hour I'll vote electronic, with paper audit trail

GOTV.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

44. We still have lever voting in NY. eom

[phylny]

72. Yes, three members of our NY household voted lever - Dem today, and our

oldest voted in Virginia - Dem :)

[Greyhound]

46. We have mail-in, so I voted absentee.

Ballot went out week before last. Go Pederson! Go Paine!

[ChrisCat]

49. Fill in the oval...paper and optical

[WritingIsMyReligion]

50. My parents voted absentee. To actually vote in person is a fill-in-the-oval gig.

Thank cripes Maine hasn't caught onto the dumbass electronic shite yet.

:hi:

[dethl]

51. Optical scanner and Paper ballot with felt-tipped pen

eom

[meisje]

54. electronic w/ visible paper trail

[ThatsMyBarack]

55. Connect the arrows....

....with a skinny black felt-tip pen. I think it work just fine! :toast:

[americanstranger]

56. Good ol' lever machine here in NY.

I think they're retiring them by '08. Then we'll end up with the same problems as everyone else.

Let's hope the Dem-controlled House can move forward on some election reform. We need (non-electronic) standards, badly.

- as

[Nikki Stone1]

57. Absentee a week ago

So far, I haven't gotten it back in the mail

[Tommymac]

58. I spoke to the oracle hiding behind the curtain....

and told him who I wanted him to write down for my vote....

:hippie:

Oooppps...I mean I used an electronic machine with no paper verification, or any real means to audit it.

:hide:

[Left Is Write]

61. Punch. And I made damn sure there were no freaking "hanging chads."

[bigwillq]

63. Lever here in CT!

:bounce:

[Proud MD Liberal]

64. Diebold, touch screen

Ick.

[New Earth]

66. i honestly don't know wtf to call what we vote on

it was the same here in Riverside as it was in Westville when I voted the last election...they are definately electronic, but they are not touchscreen. they are pretty 'wide', and you press a soft white button that turns green with an 'x' next to the person you choose. when you are done doing this, you hit a red button at the bottom on a kind of panel that submits your votes. wtf are these things called? they are kind of a combination between the lever kind, and electonic...

[cry baby]

67. They wouldn't give me a paper ballot in Tn. so I e-voted.

[InkAddict]

68. Quickly, on touch-screen. n/t

[last_texas_dem]

69. Optical scan

Being in the first generation of students to grow up in the standardized test age, I was already a pro at filling out "scantrons" before I was even old enough to vote. haha

[Orsino]

70. Very well, thank you.

On touch-screen. In and out in twelve minutes.

[Dem_4_Life]

71. Touchscreen, no paper. nt