Seems to me that would eliminate all those hanging chads and pregnant chads and arguments and court battles ect. Don't you think it would be much simpler?
2006-10-20 01:28:39 · 10 answers · asked by helpme1 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
That would be racist.
Those that have been oppressed cannot read therefore cannot vote. At least electronically, they can just push a button and then complain that the machines are rigged because they voted for the wrong person.
2006-10-20 01:30:48 · answer #1 · answered by LadySable 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
While it may be long and tedious to count paper ballots, they are safer than electronic machines that can be easily altered.
Why do we need to know within 1 minute after the polls close who won? The winner is going to be around for a long time, maybe too long in some cases.
Modern, modern, modern, that's the word and that's the big mistake.
2006-10-22 21:46:22 · answer #2 · answered by Mr.Been there 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not sure about the pen but paper is good. Electronic voting with a mandated verifiable paper trail is probably the way to go.
2006-10-20 08:48:39 · answer #3 · answered by skip 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. When 100 million people vote, who counts them?
2. Americans aren't patient enough to wait weeks for election results, they want instant results. Only automated voting does that.
3. Paper ballots have horrible problems too. My town uses them and half the time people get confused because the boxes and the names aren't aligned in a way that's easy to understand. I remember counting votes and people try to scratch out a vote, change their mind, they get confused. I was always pulling votes out for review because I couldn't figure out what the hell they were trying to do. We were under pressure to count fast and I just said "can't read this" and gave it to someone else for review.
2006-10-20 08:41:04 · answer #4 · answered by itsnotarealname 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Are you kidding those things are weapons!!! Probably the same people who voted to take tag out of recess voted to remove pens and pencils
2006-10-20 08:44:41 · answer #5 · answered by dumpllin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know on my SAT and ACT tests, they made us use a #2 pencil. It seems to me like that method works well as a computer reads the data and grades the test. If it's a good enough method for educational guidelines, then it should be good enough for an election process.
2006-10-20 08:34:24 · answer #6 · answered by Nep-Tunes 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We still use pencil and paper in Australia for our elections. That's the easy part.
We're finding it difficult to find a place to park our kangaroos when we go to vote.
2006-10-20 08:32:59 · answer #7 · answered by Tiger1980 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
takes too long to count has to be done by hand.
2006-10-20 08:30:13 · answer #8 · answered by David B 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
people with bad handwritting put a stop to that.
2006-10-20 08:36:23 · answer #9 · answered by Stephanie K 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
uum, no. theres this new thing thing they just came out with- an eraser......
2006-10-20 08:30:44 · answer #10 · answered by nickname4anne 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋