Will you be voting on electronic voting machines?

Yes. I don’t know the brand, but we’ve been doing it for a many years now. Maybe three to five years? I don’t know about the security flaws, but I do know that the people who run elections around here are too incompetent to rig the voting. Although, they are probably also too incompetent to keep an outsider from gaining access to the machines.

Yes and so I have to wonder how they will make the vote go. There is no security when it comes to computers. I know I have worked with them for 30 years now. I have seen results during the presidential election that I know were tainted.

Yes, in September they were used during the primaries. The city has sent out mailers on how to use the machines in time for the general election, but I’ve heard that they are having problems getting them to accept votes properly.

I insist on paper ballots. Takes longer, but I feel more confident in them.

How many flutherites will be voting on electronic voting machines? Couldn’t tell you, but I won’t be.
Do you know the brand of the machine? No.
Have you voted on them before? No.
Are you aware of the security flaws with the machines? Yes, as is with any computerized machine.

Nope, paper ballet. I have voted on them before, but my current district is way too poor to afford them.

We vote by mail. They send us the ballot (scantron like in high school) and mail it back. Totally painless. And we usually do it over dinner where we can read up on each thing so we know what we are actually voting on. It is a pretty big deal around here.

No. There are no electronic voting machines in the UK. We still use that old primitive paper-and-pencil thing.

Unfortunately the 2000 election has screwed us permanently. The electronic voting machines are just like the electronic slot machines in Vegas and can be programmed to give any result you want. Our penchant to make voting easier has also made voting fraud easier.

I would love to see us return to a system that gives a good record of your vote and some insurance that the person casting the vote is the person registered to vote. That means a legitimate ID. Alas, I think those days are over. We must resign ourselves to letting the computer pick the winners (or at least the programmers). Too bad, I hope they choose wisely.

As you may have guessed by this point, I will be casting my vote through the magic of electronics.

we did absentee ballots this time. I have to say it the most convenient way, we’re done. We don’t have to go and stand in line for hours in sometimes crappy weather. We will probably go absentee ballot from now on, unless there is a problem with them getting lost or something. In our district the paper kind and #2 pencil is the norm. Nothing has ever came up wrong with this, it works. So what then is the advantage using machines?

The advantage of the machines is to have the vote be the way those in charge want it to go. There are no checks and balances and no way to insure a correct count.

Ours are paper ballots that are then fed into a machine and read electronically. They still have a paper trail.

I voted by mail. I’m only one county over, but I didn’t feel like going back home for that. :P

Like many King County residents, I mailed it in.

I use whichever one I feel like using. The local electronic machines print a receipt.