Voted early last week. West TN. About 30 min total. Parking lot was full and some parked in the street. (Small parking lot) Heard poll workers saying it had been steady, same number of voters all day and since early voting started. Every one was happy and talking, so I would say there was very few Cameltow voters, if any.
It's one of the most convoluted f'd up processes I've ever seen.
For me:
You go up to table and they ask your name, type it into a tablet and then ask you to sign next to your name. They give you a paper stub, you also have to sign and date to be handed to the clerk before voting, ALONG WITH a chipped "key card" that gets inserted into the machine.
You go wait to get into the booth. Then, you insert the key card into the machine and close the curtain behind you - after giving the clerk the paper stub you signed.
You make your voting selections on an all in one PC basically - you review your answers, then it prints out your ballot. (I checked it was correct)
You exit the booth with key card and paper ballot that was printed out.
You give the key card back to the clerk
You insert your paper ballot into a document scanner, it scans it and keeps it.
You get your gay sticker that you voted and leave ....
WHY are we printing a ballot on one PC, and then scanning ot into another? WTF is that bs? The whole process seems completely jerked off ...
Curious to know if the process is similar in various states
Very different for me. Wait in line, get to the check in phase.
Present photo ID, poll worker checks computer that you are registered. She prints a document that verifies who you are, you are registered, and eligible to vote. She signed the document then had me sign it and told me to take it to the line to vote.
Next poll worker comes to you when a machine is empty and takes the document asks your name to verify the document then takes you to a machine. He then writes you machine number on the document and puts it with the other people's document.
Make your choices and press red button when done.
Here is the interesting part for me. When you press the red button a machine on the right of the selection panel prints what office you voted for and who you voted for to win the office. The machine tells you to verify your votes by pushing the red button. Push the red button and the printed verification of your votes is rolled onto the spool at the top so they have a printed copy of your vote that you verified. That printer uses rolls of "cash register" paper. Comes off the bottom and gets rolled onto the top spool. Its enclosed, you can read it, take a picture, whatever. But you cannot touch this cash register paper.
Push the red button again and your printed votes roll up to the top spool so they cant be seen. Your done. Poll worker was going to make sure I took my, as you put it gay, I voted sticker, walk out. All done.
1 day 1 vote 1 finger dipped in ink. Keep counting until it's all counted. That's another thing I never saw in my years, stopped counting at midnight. Not until DJT was on the ballot. If they stop counting they are cheating.
Voted early last week. West TN. About 30 min total. Parking lot was full and some parked in the street. (Small parking lot) Heard poll workers saying it had been steady, same number of voters all day and since early voting started. Every one was happy and talking, so I would say there was very few Cameltow voters, if any.
What was the process like for you?
It's one of the most convoluted f'd up processes I've ever seen.
For me:
You go up to table and they ask your name, type it into a tablet and then ask you to sign next to your name. They give you a paper stub, you also have to sign and date to be handed to the clerk before voting, ALONG WITH a chipped "key card" that gets inserted into the machine.
You go wait to get into the booth. Then, you insert the key card into the machine and close the curtain behind you - after giving the clerk the paper stub you signed.
You make your voting selections on an all in one PC basically - you review your answers, then it prints out your ballot. (I checked it was correct)
You exit the booth with key card and paper ballot that was printed out.
You give the key card back to the clerk
You insert your paper ballot into a document scanner, it scans it and keeps it.
You get your gay sticker that you voted and leave ....
WHY are we printing a ballot on one PC, and then scanning ot into another? WTF is that bs? The whole process seems completely jerked off ...
Curious to know if the process is similar in various states
Very different for me. Wait in line, get to the check in phase.
Thanks...
Seems we should standardize it everywhere somehow.
Seems like each state has their own little tikes gimmick...
1 day 1 vote 1 finger dipped in ink. Keep counting until it's all counted. That's another thing I never saw in my years, stopped counting at midnight. Not until DJT was on the ballot. If they stop counting they are cheating.