I voted! Very unusual this time.

[terrya]

I live in Chicago and in the precinct I live in, you were given a choice...

1) Touch screen. Hell no

or

2) You were given a large paper ballot (the thing looked like a menu) with a list of candidates on both sides....and a pen. You were then instructed to fill in the arrows next to the candidate of your choice. I'd never seen this kind of voting before. In 2004, it was a punch ballot. The 2nd alertnative was time consuming but...it was vastly better than the touch screen.

Also on the ballot...a resolution urging the United States to begin an immediate pullout of troops from Iraq. That was great voting for that.

[reyd reid reed]

1. That's the kind of paper ballot I got

Only I got bubbles instead of arrows.

We didn't get a pullout resolution, though. I would've loved that.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. In Canada we have little boxes where you mark an X next to each candidate.

[billyskank]

8. We got that high-tech solution too

Seems to work though. :)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

12. How Un-american!

[billyskank]

15. With pencils, even.

:D

[Anarcho-Socialist]

19. Whatever you say com-rad

[Book Lover]

3. It sounds like the type of ballot in my county

You use the pen to connect two halves of an arrow, right? And then you run it through the scanner and (in my county at least) then the paper ballot drops into the lockbox that the scanner sits on top of.

[terrya]

5. Yep. Exactly.

Exactly what happened.

[Book Lover]

9. I personally feel very comfortable with this type of voting tech

as the ballots are paper and verifiable. YMMV.

[terrya]

10. That was my thinking.

I'm glad we had a choice.

[johnnie]

4. I didn't have a choice

And only two out of the five machines were working. I wish we would have had that resolution on our ballot, that right there would have made it all worth while.

Did you vote for old Elvis or new Elvis?

[terrya]

7. That sucks.

And let's just say that I voted for the current Elvis. :-)

[Richardo]

13. .

:spray:

:patriot:

[LaraMN]

6. I've voted on those kind, too.

Now we just have a paper ballot on which we fill in ovals next to our selections.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. That's all that we had out in the burbs....

Apparently David Orr was paying attention.

:)

[terrya]

14. It's that kind of dilgence that I appreciate.

Thank you, David Orr. :-)

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. I got the same kind

But, hell — I was just glad they had paper ballots.

I went all prepared for them not to. Had my digital audio recorder clipped to my shirt and my cell phone at the ready, and a copy of the memo from the secretary of state to county clerks telling them to have an adequate supply.

It was almost a let-down. x(

[crim son]

17. Here in Bangor, Maine, that's what we always use.

Easy to read, nothing hanging, no screens to touch. I like them.

[ekelly]

18. Here in NE Texas

where I live, we had paper today.

Long list of boxes to fill in with a Sharpie marker.
Pop the ballot into the scanner and it drops into the box.

I was happy not to have to mess with a touch-screen.