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[mmcirvin]

Our voting experience was like The Claw's: no significant lines, small numbers of old people. I'd assumed it was that way all over Massachusetts, which is not exactly a battleground state, but there were long lines elsewhere.

At least I saw other people voting. In off years, sometimes I'm the only person there.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...Though we had optical-scan ballots instead of touch-screen machines. The only time I've ever voted with an electronic voting machine was in the 1988 Virginia Democratic primary (one of the few years they even had a primary). I did use a punchcard butterfly ballot in Cambridge once or twice.

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

We had, once again, ancient mechanical pull-the-lever voting machines. I think most of New York does.

I've never heard anything to make me like these less than any other voting technology, aside from the fact that no one makes them any more and you can't get parts to repair them.

But at least their chad doesn't hang, and at least they don't run Windows.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I remember hearing things about problems with them years ago, when they were more popular-- mostly unregistered votes, I think. I used them once in, believe it or not, a high-school student government election.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

It is usually only old people, or no one else.

This year was different. There were about fifty people there when we were there, white, black, hispanic, old, young, everyone. I was impressed with the voter turnout.