I worked the polls all day on Nov 7. I've got to tell you
that a very large number of the voters [even in an up scale
educated area] are idiots. As an example, after explaining
a woman that there were four pages on the ballot and the
VOTE button would be in-active until she had looked at and
voted on each page and then that the machine would require
that she review all four pages and vote again and then
confirm that she had voted the way she wanted before the
machine would actually register her vote. I asked her if
she had any questions and she said "No." A few minutes
later I saw her standing at the machine with a perplexed
look. I went over and asked if she had a problem or a
question. She said "The machine didn't let me vote!"
She had just scrolled through all four pages, not made any
selections, pushed VOTE. Then she reviewed her blank ballot
and voted it again. Then she "read" the last question and
pressed the CONFIRM button.

We gave her a provisional ballot, which then had the reason
that she had voted a blank on the machine. I doubt that the
ballot will be counted, since there were no close races and
she did vote. I would have said that these new machines
would make a "Palm Beach" ballot impossible this woman
proved again that idiots can break any machine or system.



"Doug" wrote in message
ups.com...
| It doesn't matter what you believe or history or the
"facts" are. The
| majority of voters went into the voting booth and said
"lets send the
| president (and his supporters) a message". Kachung!
|