Digg ThisI offer this surreptitious image as proof that I voted this afternoon:
I have to say that I missed all of the complaints about the new electronic voting doodads. Things went fairly smoothly, save for the fact that my poll worker failed to initialize my first card appropriately, and the machine canceled my vote.
Fortunately, another poll worker knew exactly what went wrong and fixed the issue, allowing me to vote.
I have a complaint about the machines by themselves, though: when you make your selection and then immediately press the “Next Page” button, the machine would give you a “dork” noise as if to say, “you can’t get there from here; try again.” Sometimes it took four or five presses to get the button to work, which annoyed me.
Then you had to scroll through your ballot and print every page, which was time-consuming and completely irrelevant. Better would be to let the machine commit everything to memory first and then print your ballot out in one smooth motion, and give you a copy if you wanted one.
So, I nitpick.
The poll workers told me that everything seemed to be going OK at my polling place (Euclid); no issues, problems or other issues to report, other than some minor voter confusion about the machines, which they were able to handle easily. I’m glad.
So I’ll leave you, for now, with another surreptitious phone cam shot, this time of my polling place.
