Notes, Notings, and Common Refrains

Ex-ac-tal-ly. I was actually thinking of voting absentee before my photo id turned invisible. But the fact that I still can't find it as of last night was the tipping point.

Watch it turn up right where my memory tells me it should be on November 5th.

For all their flaws, I really liked the punch card ballots, because they were light weight, and easy to set up.

When not in use, they could be folded inside their own briefcase carrier. There were leg sockets in the bottom at the corners, so the legs could just be snapped into place. The legs were also adjustable with simple, pushbutton locks, so you could set them up to any height with 1/2 inch incraments, and you could figure out how to do it by just looking at them.

So it was easy to set up a couple at wheelchair height. And up until my voting district switched to the electronic machines, there always were voting booths set up for the sitters.

I see absolutely no reason why the stands for the electronic machines couldn't be given similiar legs. But instead, they're only adjusted to two heights: too low, and too high.