re: #260 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Mr. C. and I mailed our ballots on Thursday. Our county has gone to all vote-by-mail, which is a return to paper ballots (unless you go in to the county offices and use a machine) which is good, but I do miss walking down to my friendly local polling place to vote. There was a degree of civic engagement which is missing now.

I’ve voted on everything from the old behemoths with levers, to punch cards, to various systems of marking paper ballots. Given the choice, I’d go back a decade to when we had the paper ballots that we marked by filling in the middle part of an arrow pointing to the candidate’s name and fed into a scanner at the polling place. It was easy to see who you were voting for, could be tabulated quickly and was not subject to a lot of technical difficulties.