GEAUX Vote!

I doubt those who frequent this section of tigerforums need to be reminded, but it is election day so,

:usaflagwa:usaflagwa:laflagwav:laflagwavGEAUX VOTE!:laflagwav:laflagwav:usaflagwa:usaflagwa

I'd also be interested to hear what kind of machines are being used at your polling place. In Iberia Parish, LA (i'm outside city limits) we had an un-branded touchscreen that had both electronic cards and paper recipts.

 

they do not have a paper backup, i have worked many elections with those machines. i even had to go to a special course to be taught them.

after the election the workers print out results from them, 3 copies i think, from each machine. the person in charge takes one, keeps it, gives another to the elections office, and leaves one locked in the machine.

but these printouts are the results at the end of the day, and do not fuction as reciepts for each voter. they dont make those, and there is no paper trail for individual votes.

a copy of the total from all machines is handled similarly and one copy is posted outside at the polling place the night of the election. you could go there late and read how your pooling place voted. i used to call these reults in to the newspaper. my (parents) polling place i the most overwhelmingly republican place on earth.

however, i think the system is pretty secure and generally do not believe any serious voting scams are happening anywhere, at least not with the machines.

in jersey city NJ we use the exact same kind that is predominant in baton rouge, the lit up touchypad thing.

 

White paper ballot and #2 pencil. Serious.

 

In my precinct in CO, they only had one electronic machine and it was broken when I voted. Shaded in the oval of choice with the pen as we've been doing for years.

 

We use smoke signals mostly, but some people will use the horns on their shrimp boats to signal it in (morse code)