I said the to guy, "What about the other side?" He panicked. "You mean you didn't fill it out?" he said. When I assured him I had, he was quite visibly relieved. "Boy, if you hadn't, it sure would have messed up the system."
Seems to me it should have been his job to visually check it before telling me to feed it in, but....
My long-winded point, though: I bet that, at least in New Mexico, there may be a larger-than-expected discrepancy between the number of votes cast for candidates and the votes cast on the bond issues. If so, that might not mean any skulduggery was involved.
PS: I just received my sixth or seventh call in 24 hrs from my "new" best friend, Gov. Bill Richardson reminding me, this time, that the polls are closing in a few hours. I do hope someone is doing a "how long until they hang up" analysis to try an determine an aggravation threshold.
-tom
On 11/6/06, Michael Gizzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was impressed that when I voted on Friday (Colorado has early voting), that the touch screen was attached to a printer that printed out each of my responses. This was not present when voting in 2004; sure... its still possible to mess with the system, but the print out provides a bit more confidence on the part of the voter.
Michael Gizzi
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