What Method Does Your Area Use To Vote?

[Madi100]

I just assumed that all people voted the same. We have a way here that I've never seen anywhere before. There are broken arrows by all of the candidates names. Whichever person you wish to vote for, you fix the broken arrow with a pencil. We have little privacy booths, but there is no curtain. If I was standing behind the man that was next to me I probably could see what he was doing. And, no one asked for my ID. I just had to fill out a form with my name and address. Pretty simple.

Something I also noted. Why was John Kerry listed first on my ballot? Was he that way on all ballots? I assumed that the incumbant (sp?) would be listed first with the opposing listed second.

 

[Jenn Lynn]

Same method as you. We had markers instead of pencils.

John Kerry was listed first also.

 

[monkeyboy]

Originally posted by Madi100
Something I also noted. Why was John Kerry listed first on my ballot? Was he that way on all ballots? I assumed that the incumbant (sp?) would be listed first with the opposing listed second.

Alphabetic by party

Dems

Reps

 

[TerriP]

Sounds like my ballot looked just like yours...little broken arrows I had to fill in with my #2 pencil. VERY high tech! Then I had to feed my ballot into the locked ballot box to record my vote. Pretty simple and painless.

Not sure why Kerry was first, but it was that way on mine, too. Is it because "Democrat" comes before "Republican" alphbetically?

 

[caitycaity]

we have the computer touch screen voting.

 

[MELSMICE]

We have the mechanical ballot machines (I don't know what else to call them). You pull the lever to close the curtain - choose who you want with a tiny pull arrow & pull the level back to open the curtain so the next person can vote. Not much room for error with this system.

 

[piglet too]

This year we had ovals to fill in with a pen. Then you fed it into a machine and were done.

 

[piglet too]

Originally posted by monkeyboy
Alphabetic by party

Dems

Reps

 

[Annette_VA]

My old polling place did it like that, the arrows thing.

Where I vote now has some ancient booths. You step in, pull the lever & that closes the curtain. You then point these little levers toward the candidate/option you're choosing & it puts an X next to them. When you've made all your selections, you pull the big lever again & it registers your vote & opens the curtain back up.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Punchcards

 

[stinkerbelle]

Originally posted by Annette_VA
My old polling place did it like that, the arrows thing.

Where I vote now has some ancient booths. You step in, pull the lever & that closes the curtain. You then point these little levers toward the candidate/option you're choosing & it puts an X next to them. When you've made all your selections, you pull the big lever again & it registers your vote & opens the curtain back up.

yep - circa 1950

looking forward to touch screens in the future! all those little levers intimidate me!

 

[piratesmate]

I'm not sure what it's called...not quite what I think of when you say "touch screen." It's not touch sensitive like a computer monitor. You have to actually depress a button under a sheet covering the electronics.

 

[decker96]

We have the fill in the circle with a #2 pencil ones still. We also have the privacy booths with no curtain. But I had my DD1 with me, so I sat at a table with about 4 other people and voted. No secrecy there!!!

 

[tar heel]

The dreaded punch card, and there were chads left from other ballots all over the place. I did check my ballot to make sure I had no hanging chads.

 

[mbw12]

computerized touch screens

 

[goin2disneyagain]

Originally posted by caitycaity
we have the computer touch screen voting.

Same here in Georgia. George W. Bush was listed first on our ballot.

 

[helenabear]

we have touchscreen very much like what piratesmate described

It's nice because a flashing light at the header of the column means you haven't voted for that position of office/issue. A very clear red light shows up next to the name or position you want for the issue after you press. Easy to do

 

[LoraJ]

We had a new-fangled machine this year. Looks just like the old levy type machines, but now you touch it and a green X pops up. And then instead of pulling the curtain lever, you click a cast vote button.

 

[Dodie]

Originally posted by piglet too
This year we had ovals to fill in with a pen. Then you fed it into a machine and were done.

Ditto here.

 

[gr8tpanther]

Ours is like a school acheivement test, color in the little circle by your candidates name.