I Voted Today - It Felt Great!
Submitted by mhagle on Mon, 10/24/2016 - 11:37am
Afterwards I posted this image on Facebook and Twitter. I am amazed at how wonderful it feels to have voted my conscience, and to have voted for candidates who inspire confidence.
The early voting spot was crazy busy. Mostly old folks. They were moving about 20 people through every five minutes.
I recommend this good feeling to all.
Comments
That screen looks scary.
I prefer NY's paper ballots and optical scanner and then something happens.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I liked the old mechanical voting machines with the big lever.
When I threw that lever, I had this physical sensation in the muscles and bones of, “That’ll show ’em!”
they worked well
and they essentially could not be hacked.
No, only folks who could do arithmetic in public and add.
My 2 milllennials were taken into lever-booths to register vote when the curtain was opened.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
A fine vote for Jill Clinton
Yeah, I know what it says on screen.But....
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
So what's that supposed to mean?
?
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Just because it says Jill Stein
Doesn't mean it gets counted that way. Good of you to record this with photo but re-countable paper ballots are badly needed.
Yeah, cynical is my middle name.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Ah Ok. LOL
I thought you were inferring that a vote for Jill is also a vote for Hill. Been hearing that dumb argument that so much lately I'm getting a little punchy. hahaha.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Virginia ditched the Diebolds
and has gone over to op-scan. Presumably that makes it harder to mess with our votes - at least I hope so.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
This is Texas . . .
These are machines in Texas. I would be surprised if HRC's crew would try hacking them. That would be a pretty ballsy move. Not very covert.
The Dem party here is quite worthless. Half of the ballot listed Repubs running unopposed. Greens had about the same number of candidates running as the dems.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Congrats
NY has no early voting. We are so far behind the times here it isn't funny.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Steven D, I had considered getting an absentee ballot in NY
But I figure those will never be counted. Waste of a Forever Stamp.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
If you make it too easy to vote,
then everyone would do it.
It must be only one day of voting to ensure long lines and on a work day. C'mon now.
Edit: Opps. Meant as reply to Steven D.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
I think almost all here will vote for Jill, but will any of it
matter? The election has already been decided.
But I will also take a photo of my vote when I do. If for nothing else for posterity.
The bigger existential question remains: does anybody have faith in this absurd, outmoded and archaic system, from the one day for voting, on a Tuesday, using mostly computer generated voting, and then expecting the results of 100 millions votes to be tallied in 120 minutes or less?
Every time I see one of these touch screen voter applications a red light goes off in my head. But it doesn't even need to be that. As riverlover says, here in NYS we have paper ballots. Comes down to, who counts the votes and how they do.
"Hacking Democracy" should be shared and viewed far and wide to show just how vulnerable and rife for corruption this farce that we vaunt as the greatest democracy in the world truly is.
Here's the famous court testimony of a Florida computer programmer, who admits he wrote a program in 2000 for a congressman to flip the vote in his favor 51-49.
"Could the County Board of Elections be able to detect that?"
"They'd never see it."
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Hacking Democracy was made in 2006
Here we are a decade later, and the voting methods and results credibility are far worse. If the shumcks in congress (both Ds and Rs) were worth more than a dog turd on the sidewalk, something would have been done by now. Throw em all out.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
They do not want to fix the problem
Fixing it is very easy. Other countries have very secure systems. So why is not fixed? Having a system that is insecure and open to election fraud is not a problem, its a feature.
"They'd never see it."
They don't even know how to look.
Thanks for posting this. I had seen it, years ago, but this is a great reminder.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Me too.
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
My ballot is on the counter,
My ballot is on the counter, sealed, waiting for me to put it in the mail (yay Oregon!) I voted for a mix of Green, Working Family, Progressive Party, and write-in candidates. We have fusion voting (yay Oregon!). I did ultimately vote for 1 Democrat for State Representative, but there was no alternative party and this Democrat had bucked some of the state party's decisions that I also disagreed with. Otherwise, Democrat was a strike against candidates this election.