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Re: My Name Is Baratunde, And I Just Voted For Barack Obama

GreenLadyHere13 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:08:59 -0000

baratunde: WOW! This is GREAT!! RIGHT IN THE BOOTH!!! :>)

THANK YOU for this experience! Whooo! Hoo! :>)

Re: My Name Is Baratunde, And I Just Voted For Barack Obama

baratunde — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:13:45 -0000

NY's mechanical voting machines are among the most reliable and difficult to
hack in the nation actually. Plus you feel like you actually did something!

Re: My Name Is Baratunde, And I Just Voted For Barack Obama

Eric Cheung — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:36:57 -0000

Wow, they still have the levers up there! My first ever election in Boston in November 2000 they still had the booths, but I think soon after the 2002 gubernatorial race they switched to paper scanned ballots.

In LA they have something similar. You insert the paper ballot into this book mounted on a stand and the binding between each set of two pages has holes in it. You mark the holes with a special marker to vote and when you're done you put the ballot into the machine. I can understand why.

There are usually dozens of things to vote for in each election. I had to do my homework yesterday and I finally figured out how I'm voting for all the little local elections and propositions and measures. I wrote it all on a piece of paper and will try to get out of work a little early to head to the polls just down the street from my apartment.

Thank you for the video, that's pretty damn cool.

Re: My Name Is Baratunde, And I Just Voted For Barack Obama

Yobachi — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:14:33 -0000

Oh my goodness - I early voted a couple of Saturday's ago, and there was an old Black poll worker there, about 75; and he was telling me about how back in his day they had these machines with a big lever that you had to pull to punch the punch card.

Ha ha ha ha ha, why y'all got 40/50 year old machines up in New York?

Re: My Name Is Baratunde, And I Just Voted For Barack Obama

rk — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:12:19 -0000

Thank you for sharing...Brought tears to my eyes! Beautifully simple documentation of a very private moment on a very historical day