Post by Vball818 on Nov 3, 2004 19:52:38 GMT -5
This is a topic that you may have talked in person with someone or heard about today in TV or radio and it is about how well your voting poll/precint functioned?
Where I voted it was a bit of a chaos - none of the volunteers were bilingual(in this case the second language would be Spanish), the voters whose primary language was Spanish was talking out loud in Spanish at the voting booth telling the next person on who to vote and how to vote on the propositions and measures, kids were running around and/or in the ballot booth, there wasn't enough volunteers and they were a bit overwhelmed, the people that were in line waiting to vote pointed these things out to them and the volunteers and all we got was mean looks from the voters and exasperated shrugs from the volunteers. The lines were not long - I probably waited no more than five minutes and this was during when people were getting off of work...I don't know anyone who waited in line for eight to ten hours, all I had to do was show my sample ballot and no picture ID. In L.A. county(that's county, not city) we didn't use punch cards but used InkaVote and electronic voting machines. In my precint it was only InkaVote and there was a minute chance of anyone fouling it up - it's so simple to use. Instead of punching your vote you just mark your vote.
Where I voted it was a bit of a chaos - none of the volunteers were bilingual(in this case the second language would be Spanish), the voters whose primary language was Spanish was talking out loud in Spanish at the voting booth telling the next person on who to vote and how to vote on the propositions and measures, kids were running around and/or in the ballot booth, there wasn't enough volunteers and they were a bit overwhelmed, the people that were in line waiting to vote pointed these things out to them and the volunteers and all we got was mean looks from the voters and exasperated shrugs from the volunteers. The lines were not long - I probably waited no more than five minutes and this was during when people were getting off of work...I don't know anyone who waited in line for eight to ten hours, all I had to do was show my sample ballot and no picture ID. In L.A. county(that's county, not city) we didn't use punch cards but used InkaVote and electronic voting machines. In my precint it was only InkaVote and there was a minute chance of anyone fouling it up - it's so simple to use. Instead of punching your vote you just mark your vote.
